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    Close-in weapon system (redirect from CIWS)
    modern warships are equipped with some kind of CIWS device. There are two types of CIWS systems. A gun-based CIWS usually consists of a combination of radars...
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    Russian CIWS Kashtan CIWS, Russian Gun-Missile CIWS Goalkeeper CIWS, Dutch CIWS based on the GAU-8 Avenger autocannon Aselsan GOKDENIZ, Turkish CIWS Meroka...
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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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    progress. Type 730 CIWS is an autonomous closed-loop system and thus offers faster reaction time than the Russian AK-630. Type 730 CIWS is fully compatible...
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    The Kortik (Russian: Кортик, "dirk") close-in weapon system (CIWS) is a modern naval air defence gun-missile system deployed by the Russian Navy. Its export...
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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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  • Myriad CIWS was a twin 7 barrelled, 25 mm rotary cannon-style CIWS developed by a consortium including OTO Melara. The system's primary purpose, had it...
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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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  • CIW has multiple meanings: California Institution for Women, a state prison in the USA Canadian Index of Wellbeing, that measures the wellbeing of Canadians...
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    all-weather-capable Turkish 35 mm dual barrel close-in weapon system (CIWS) developed by Aselsan. It is a CIWS variant of KORKUT Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. Each...
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  • May 18, 2016, CIWS-FM moved from 102.7 MHz to its current frequency at 102.9 MHz and changed its branding to WhiStleFM. Original CIWS-FM logo 2008(?)-2016...
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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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    Sea Zenith (redirect from Sea Zenith CIWS)
    Sea Zenith is a four-barrelled 25 mm CIWS used by the Turkish Navy on their MEKO 200 frigates, like the Barbaros and Yavuz classes. It was developed in...
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    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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  • 32-cell H/AJK16 VLS HQ-16; 1 × dual Type 79A 100 mm naval gun; 2 × Type 1130 CIWS Powerplant: 2 × steam turbines; 48,600 shp (36.2 MW) total power Speed: 31...
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    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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    2 × AK-726 twin 76.2 mm AA guns 8 × AK-630 30 mm close-in weapon system (CIWS) 10 × 21" torpedo tubes 1 × twin SUW-N-1 FRAS Anti-Submarine Rocket launcher...
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  • Professional (CIW) education program was created by a community of Web designers and developers in the late 1990s. The company that currently owns CIW, Certification...
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    IFV, APC Palash CIWS Palma CIWS - the deliveries of the systems to the Russian Navy and foreign navies started in 2011. Ptitselov CIWS is an air transportable...
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    caliber for shipboard close-in weapons systems (CIWS), such as the Russian AK-630 and Dutch Goalkeeper CIWS. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation use...
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    Chinese Navy's Type 730 CIWS. In operation, it pairs with a Counter Battery Radar. Goalkeeper CIWS is a Dutch close-in weapon system (CIWS) introduced in 1979...
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    Donated by Germany in 2023 CIWS LFK NG—the new air-defence missile of the German Army within the "SysFla" project Phalanx CIWS—In 2004 the United States...
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    GSh-6-30, also known as AO-18 used in AK-630 CIWS system. AO-18K; Modernized AO-18 used by Kashtan CIWS. AO-18KD; Further improved AO-18K with a higher...
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    received 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...
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    with 24 short to medium range (30 km) missiles; Barak SAM-launcher CIWS; 2 × AK-630 CIWS Powerplant: 2 × Pielstick 16 PA6 STC Diesel engines 2 × GE LM2500+...
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    Sea skimming is a technique many anti-ship missiles and some fighter or strike aircraft use to avoid radar, infrared detection, and to lower probability...
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    at a high rate of fire. The GAU-8/A is also used in the Dutch Goalkeeper CIWS ship weapon system, which provides defense against short-range threats such...
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    California Institution for Women (CIW) is an American women's state prison located in the city of Chino, San Bernardino County, California, east of Los...
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  • ASWM; 10 × 533 mm torpedo tubes; 2 × 100 mm guns, 2 × 130 mm guns, AK-630 CIWS; RBU-6000 ASW rockets, 2 × RBU-1000 ASW rockets Armament (Surviving units):...
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    The Correctional Institution for Women (CIW) is a women's prison located in F. Martinez Avenue, Mauway, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. The prison...
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