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    The Phalanx CIWS (SEE-wiz) is an automated gun-based close-in weapon system to defend military watercraft automatically against incoming threats such as...
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    The Goalkeeper CIWS is a Dutch close-in weapon system (CIWS) introduced in 1979. It is an autonomous and completely automatic weapon system for short-range...
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    launcher variant equipped with independent sensors derived from the Vulcan Phalanx CIWS, is being installed on Littoral Combat Ships and certain Arleigh Burke-class...
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    self-protection upgrades, replacing one of their two Phalanx CIWS with a SeaRAM CIWS, which combines the Phalanx sensor dome with an 11-cell RIM-116 launcher...
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    the target. Phalanx CIWS mounts were used by Missouri and Wisconsin during the 1991 Gulf War; Wisconsin alone fired 5,200 20 mm Phalanx CIWS rounds. Missouri...
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    Liberation Army Marine Corps Comparable ground systems Phalanx CIWS Goalkeeper CIWS AK-630 Kashtan CIWS "CIWS: The Last Ditch Defense" (PDF). Archived from the...
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    Close-in weapon system (redirect from CIWS)
    30 mm - 30×173mm Phalanx CIWS Block 0, 1, 1A, and 1B - 20×102mm Sea Zenith - 25×184mm H/PJ-76A - 37×240mm Type 730 and Type 1130 CIWS - 30×165mm Pantsir-M...
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    used on the FFG-7 and CG-47 programs, and the Phalanx CIWS. The combination of the Mk 110 and the Phalanx gives the cutters anti-surface capability, limited...
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    CIWS, they suffer from short engagement times and the need for multiple volleys to effectively eradicate a threat.[citation needed] The AK-630 CIWS has...
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    installation of the remainder of the ship's self-defence armament, with two Phalanx CIWS mounts fitted. This was followed by the ship's return to Rosyth to allow...
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    modernization in the 1980s, each Iowa was equipped with four of the US Navy's Phalanx CIWS mounts, two of which sat just behind the bridge and two which were next...
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    including the installation of Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a MK 15 Phalanx CIWS. The Harpoon anti-ship missiles were fitted to multiple cutters of the...
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    The Meroka CIWS is a Spanish Navy 12 barrelled 20 mm close-in weapon system (CIWS), using twelve Oerlikon 20 mm/12 guns mounted in 2 rows of 6 guns each...
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    tank  Vietnam Pohang-class corvette Aselsan GOKDENIZ Myriad CIWS Meroka CIWS Sea Zenith CIWS Denel 35mm Dual Purpose Gun Gander, Terry (2013). The Bofors...
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    were the close-in weapon systems point-defense weapons, such as the Phalanx CIWS, used for detecting and destroying short range incoming missiles and...
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  • Airframe Missile launcher, 21 cells 2 7.62 mm M60 machine guns 1 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Countermeasures: 4 × chaff/IR launchers (ESM/ECM) Ships in class: 1(4–6...
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    was added sometime in the 1970s and removed in the 1990s. Two 20 mm Phalanx CIWS systems were added in the 1980s for point defense. In recent years she...
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    injured 21. No weapons were fired in defense of Stark. The autonomous Phalanx CIWS remained in standby mode, Mark 36 SRBOC countermeasures were not armed...
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    of fire compared to guns used by other CIWS such as the GAU-8 on the Goalkeeper and the M61 Vulcan on the Phalanx. Along with a high rate of fire, the fairly...
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    aircraft and anti-ship missiles, as well as either three or four 20 mm Phalanx CIWS. USS Ronald Reagan has none of these, having been built with the Mk 49...
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    Harrier of VMA-311 aboard USS America on 22 February 2015 USS America's Phalanx CIWS undergoing maintenance on 5 October 2014 USMC Lockheed F-35Bs aboard...
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    8 Harpoon Missiles SSM, ASROC octuple launcher, 1 Otobreda 76 mm, 1 Phalanx CIWS, 1 375 mm ASW rocket launcher, 2 triple 324 mm Mk 32 ASW torpedo tubes...
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    by a close-in weapon system (CIWS), such as the American Phalanx CIWS, Russian Kashtan CIWS, or the Dutch Goalkeeper CIWS. To counter these defense systems...
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    were initially built. Image also shows an example of black masts and no Phalanx CIWS Deyo with ASROC and ABL's forward. starboard bow view of Deyo, VLS equipped...
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    mounts for 32 BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and a quartet of 20 mm Phalanx CIWS rotary cannon for defense against enemy anti-ship missiles and enemy...
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    2017. @NavyLookout (21 March 2023). "@RFAArgus now fitted with single Phalanx CIWS mount in preparation for her new role as Littoral Strike Ship" (Tweet)...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Virginia (CGN-38)
    converted to the Navy's first strike cruiser with the addition of the Phalanx CIWS, Tomahawk missile and the SM-2 extension of her surface to air capability...
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    Phalanx CIWS for self-defense. In 2001, Kitty Hawk received two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers replacing the forward Sea Sparrow and Phalanx CIWS...
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    NATO-standard BAE 5-inch, 62-calibre Mark 45 naval gun. Smaller guns include two Phalanx CIWS, two 30mm DS30M Mark 2 Automated Small Calibre Guns and a number of miniguns...
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    was added sometime in the 1970s and removed in the 1990s. Two 20 mm Phalanx CIWS systems were added in the 1980s for point defense. In recent years they...
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