The RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile is a small, lightweight, infrared homing surface-to-air missile in use by the German, Japanese, Greek, Turkish, South Korean, Saudi Arabian, Egyptian, Mexican, UAE
A RIM-116 being launched from USS New Orleans in 2013
Sailors handle the rolling airframe missile system aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt launches a Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM).
USS America (LHA 6) launching a RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile
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
RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile
…and Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS) Mk 1 or Mk 2-based combat systems. SeaRAM, a launcher variant equipped with independent sensors derived from the Vulcan Phalanx CIWS, is being installed on Independence-class littoral combat ships and certain Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The RIM-116 was developed by General…
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