JS Kunisaki
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JS Kunisaki is the third ship of the Ōsumi-class tank landing ships of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
JS Kunisaki
JS Kunisaki and USNS Mercy on 14 June 2010
JS Kunisaki at Kure in May 2011
JS Kunisaki at Da Nang in June 2014
Phalanx CIWS
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The Phalanx CIWS is an automated gun-based "Close-In Weapon System" to defend military watercraft automatically against incoming threats such as aircraft, missiles, and small boats. It was designed an
Phalanx CIWS aboard the former USS Elrod (FFG-55) in 2019.
Phalanx prototype on the fantail of USS King in 1973
The ex-USNS Saturn during a sinking exercise, hit by rounds fired from the Mk-15 Phalanx CIWS onboard USS Mitscher
A technician checks the radar transmitter and microwave assemblies of a Phalanx CIWS; also visible (top left) is the search radar, with vertical tracking radar below it