Raytheon - Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) & SeaRAM Anti-Ship Missile Defense System [480p]

The Phalanx CIWS advanced radar-controlled gun system provides superior defense against close-in air and surface threats.

The Phalanx Close-In Weapon System is a rapid-fire, computer-controlled, radar-guided gun system designed to defeat anti-ship missiles and other close-in air and surface threats. A self-contained package, Phalanx automatically carries out functions usually performed by multiple systems -- including search, detection, threat evaluation, tracking, engagement, and kill assessment.

Phalanx Block 1B, the latest upgrade, with its surface mode configuration, augments the proven anti-air warfare capability by adding a forward looking infrared sensor and optimized gun barrels to the Block 1A configuration. It allows Phalanx to be used against littoral warfare threats such as helicopters and high-speed surface threats. Block 1B also adds new control stations with situational awareness that allows operators to visually track and identify targets before engagement.

Phalanx is installed on practically all U.S. combatant ships and on those of 22 allied nations.


The SeaRAM Anti-Ship Missile Defense System provides the highest level of ship self-defense with extended keep-out range capability.

The SeaRAM Anti-Ship Missile Defense System is a spiral development of key attributes of the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System and the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Guided Weapon System. SeaRAM is designed to extend the inner layer battlespace and enable the ship to effectively engage multiple high-performance, supersonic and subsonic threats.

An 11-missile RAM launcher assembly replaces Phalanx's 20mm gun. SeaRAM combines RAM's superior accuracy, extended range and high maneuverability with the Phalanx Block 1B's high resolution search-and-track sensor systems and reliable quick-response capability.

SeaRAM is an affordable capability upgrade ---- the above-deck system fits the exact footprint of the Phalanx, uses the same power, and requires minimal shipboard modification.

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[masterfistlord]

nom nom nom, iranian speedboats

[shoopwhoopX]

sorry santa, you aint getting close to this ship

[MrMegacurie]

@AllianceWithChina1 thanks to the partnership of US and Germany - the RIM-116 can stop everything - Sunburn included

[ManofDeath3666]

@phremoney im pretty sure they have more than one installed on a ship, and the ships don't travel alone

[omichron420]

@AllianceWithChina1 i'm sure America makes all defenses from attack public knowledge.

[ChocoboXii00]

The Kashtan system is better.

[AllianceWithChina1]

and must not forget Iranians Testing ? Supersonic Mach 3-Ballistic Missile called 'Carrier-Killer' Because of speeds typically reaching Mach 10 there are currently no ship-board defense mechanisms that could counter this type of Ballistic Missile Watch vid called "IRAN SUPER WEAPON AIRCRAFT CARRIER KILLER SUPERSONIC ANTISHIP BALLISTIC MISSILE "

[AllianceWithChina1]

US Navy has never faced anything in combat as formidable as the Sunburn missile. Try and imagine it if you can: barrage after barrage of Exocet-class missiles, which the Iranians are known to possess in the hundreds, as well as the unstoppable Sunburn and Yakhonts missiles

[Markle6]

R2D2 w/ a hard on!!!

[Ponder1ng]

@NameNotAlreadyTaken2 funny, considering the fact that the 20mms were considered highly effective at short range by gun captains, and their total kills were second only to the 40mm quad bofors.

[phremoney]

First, I HATE music in these videos. The gun sound is the music. Please stop inflicting us with your junior league record producer fantasy. Next, this system looks cool but what happens if they launch 50 missiles all at once?

[frankthefish1]

Ratheon created a craft seats three. The rivets a faultie rivets. Ground this craft don't test it till fixed. Test is at UDA on friday at four pm. Hopefully ones who have knowledge of this read this.