Close-in Weapon Systems (CIWS) are essential components of modern naval defense strategies, designed to protect vessels from incoming anti-ship missiles and other airborne threats. Operating at ...

SeaRAM, a launcher variant with independent sensors based on the Vulcan Phalanx CIWS, is installed on Littoral Combat Ships and some Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. RIM-116 Missile was developed ...

The SeaRAM system builds upon the infrastructure and radar of the CIWS, which has a Phalanx gun system that fires a twenty-millimeter cannon at close-in threats such as small boats. The SeaRAM is ...

The SeaRAM is part of a layered ship-defense system designed to identify and destroy longer-range approaching enemy threats, such as anti-ship missiles, drones, small boats and helicopters.

The unusual Sunday exercise saw the participation of F-16s armed with live air-to-air weapons. The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy performed a joint exercise in the Black Sea on Aug. 2, 2020 focusing ...

SeaRAM close-in weapon system. LWSD is a technology demonstrator, but it's already catching up to missile-based systems currently in service with the U.S. Navy.

The weapons include Patriot surface-to-air missiles and a variant of the Navy's SeaRAM and CIWS, or close-in weapon system, which fires 3,000 rounds a minute, a defense official with knowledge of ...

A Rolling Airframe Missile departs its launcher on the dock landing ship Gunston Hall. Raytheon says the outlook for sales of the system in the Middle East is good. (Lt. Christopher Yee/U.S. Navy ...

Raytheon's SeaRAM Anti-Ship Missile Defence System But now, the race is less defined. Other countries are involved along with the US and Russia: the European Union, China and India being the most ...

Standard armament of a Freedom -class LCS includes a 11-cell Raytheon RIM-116B SeaRAM missile-defense system, a 57-millimeter naval gun, and Mark 5o torpedoes. Depending on the mission package ...

The innovative SeaRAM system combines key attributes of the Phalanx® close-in weapon system and the RAM„¢ guided weapon system. Discover how this system provides the highest level of ship self ...

Nevertheless, every LCS, regardless of mission package, is armed with a BAE Systems 57 millimeter Mk 110 main gun and a 11-cell Raytheon RIM-116B SeaRAM missile-defense system.