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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RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (redirect from SeaRAM CIWS)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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AK-630 (section Comparison with current CIWS)
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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Lightbody & Poyer 1990, pp. 338–39. NavWeaps.com, 20 mm Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) Thomas, Vincent C. (1987). The Almanac of Seapower, p. 191...
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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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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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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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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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DARDO (section Comparison with current CIWS)
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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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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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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unusually well armed for a landing platform dock with a 76 mm gun, two Phalanx CIWS, and two modular missile launchers of either 8 Hsiung Feng II surface-to-surface...
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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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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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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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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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These were later removed and the weapon stations were used to fit two Phalanx CIWS. The last ship of the class, LPD-16, while authorized, was cancelled...
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including Carney received self-protection upgrades, replacing the aft Phalanx CIWS 20mm Vulcan cannon with the SeaRAM 11-cell RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile...
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with two 30 mm cannons and two Phalanx CIWS. The 30 mm cannons are fitted aft, directed starboard, and port. One of the CIWS mounts is located forward, and...
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Eisenhower participated in the strikes. On 30 January 2024, Gravely used her Phalanx CIWS to shoot down an incoming anti-ship cruise missile fired by the Houthis...
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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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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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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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