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
The Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers is a United States Navy class of destroyers centered on the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multifunction radar. The class was developed as a mo
RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile
…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 Dynamics's Pomona and Valley Systems divisions under a July 1976 agreement with Denmark and West Germany (the…
USS Roosevelt, a Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, at sea
Flight I ship USS Fitzgerald with Tactical Towed Array Sonar (TACTAS) in the center of the fantail, Harpoon missile launchers, distinctive stacks, and no helicopter hangars
Flight IIA ship USS Mustin without TACTAS and no Harpoon launchers, but with helicopter hangars and new exhaust stacks design
Flight III ship USS Jack H. Lucas showing the larger AN/SPY-6 arrays, stacked rigid-hull inflatable boats, and slight exhaust stack modifications