After more than four decades in service, the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System, or CIWS, has become a well-known defensive ...

The MK-15 Phalanx CIWS provides ships of the U.S. Navy with an inner layer point defense ... Phalanx is the only deployed close-in weapon system capable of autonomously performing its own search ...

An Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer is deploying to provide security along the U.S. southern border, carrying a ...

As the U.S. Navy's Lieutenant Commander John A ... multifaceted in the defenses they employ. The potent Phalanx CIWS (Close-In Weapon System) is one advanced method of doing just that, employed ...

The US Navy equips all its surface combat ships with a powerful gun called the Phalanx. This is what it looks like in action. Produced by Eames Yates, Original Reporting by Jeremy Bender.

One thing is certain, as naval ships have only gotten larger ... it can defend itself using 2 Phalanx CIWS weapons and two other SeaRAM CIWS. Named after its country, the USS America is the ...

Tarawa Class: Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Service: USN, USMC Armament: 2x RAM launchers; 2x Phalanx 20 mm CIWS mount; 3x .50 cal. machine guns ... Ships are the U.S. Navy’s largest of all ...