• Thumbnail for Phalanx CIWS
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    variant of the Sky Bow III and the Sky Sword II, as well as the Sea Oryx CIWS system. It will field a ballistic missile defense version of the Sky Bow...
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  • phalanx or Phalanx in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The phalanx is a rectangular mass military formation. Phalanx may also refer to: Phalanx CIWS,...
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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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    over 100,000 tons. The ship is equipped with two Phalanx CIWS (close-in weapon systems) and two SeaRAM CIWS for her defense. Kaga toured the South China Sea...
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  • Thumbnail for Iowa-class battleship
    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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    rapid-firing gun, controlled by the FCS-2 fire-control system, and a Phalanx CIWS. The OPS-14 is the Japanese equivalent of the American AN/SPS-49 radar...
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    vessels carry 16 missiles. A Raytheon/General Dynamics Phalanx Mark 15 Mod 21 Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) is mounted on top of the helicopter hangar for "last-ditch"...
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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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    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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    Baseline 9 for BMD capability, as well as replacing her aft Phalanx CIWS with a SeaRAM CIWS. The ship crossed the Arctic Circle in May 2021. The crew began...
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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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    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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    allow simultaneous landings or take-offs. The ship is equipped with 2 Phalanx CIWS and 2 SeaRAM for its defense. The destroyers of this class were initially...
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  • Thumbnail for USNS Arctic (T-AOE-8)
    previously (as USS Arctic) was equipped with. One of these systems was the Phalanx CIWS. Arctic has the speed to keep up with the carrier strike groups. She...
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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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for M167 VADS
    by a ground-based version of the Phalanx CIWS self-defense gun which the U.S. Navy uses on its ships. The Phalanx CIWS uses the same basic 20 mm rapid-fire...
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    seconds. The ships' only announced self-defence weapons are currently the Phalanx CIWS for airborne threats and Browning .50 caliber heavy machine guns. The...
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  • manufacturer); 2 × missile canister up to 8 Type 90 (SSM-1B); 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS; 2 × Type 68 triple torpedo tubes (6 × Mk 46 or Type 73 torpedoes); 96-cell...
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    navyrecognition.com. Retrieved 1 January 2016. "Last ditch defence – the Phalanx close-in weapon system in focus". Navy Lookout. 10 August 2020. Retrieved...
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