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
C-RAM
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Counter rocket, artillery, and mortar, abbreviated C-RAM or counter-RAM, is a set of systems used to detect and/or destroy incoming rockets, artillery, mortars and drones before they hit their targets
2010 test-fire of a C-RAM. Balad, Iraq
Nächstbereichschutzsystem MANTIS of the Luftwaffe