USS Underwood (FFG 36) was presented the Phalanx Close In Weapon System (CIWS) Excellence Award on October 20, 2011. The award recognizes the best CIWS teams based on system availability, rounds fired ...

The Phalanx CIWS has been in service with the Navy since the 1970s, and has received significant technological upgrades since then to improve its detection and target acquisition capabilities. The US ...

Raytheon Technologies Corp.’s RTX business segment, Missiles and Defense, recently clinched a modification contract for MK 15 close-in weapon system (CIWS). The award has been provided by the Naval ...

A video has recently emerged showing what, at first glance, seems to be a Mk 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon System, or CIWS, in someone's garage. On closer inspection, it turns out the Phalanx is actually ...

If a missile gets within a mile of a U.S. warship, there’s no time to think—only to shoot. Enter the Phalanx CIWS, a fully autonomous close-in weapon system that fires 75 tungsten rounds per second to ...

A US warship’s destruction of an incoming Houthi missile in the Red Sea this week marks the first use in this conflict of an advanced weapons system dubbed the Navy’s “last line of defense.” The ...

LIG Nex1 is developing the Close-In Weapons System (CIWS)-II for ground use. CIWS is a weapon system that acts as the last line of defense when enemy missiles penetrate the defense shields of ...

Serco has won a $31.2 million contract with the Navy to install the Close-In Weapons System. Serco has won a $31.2 million contract with the Navy to install the Close-In Weapons System. The CIWS ...

Here's some serious Friday gun-porn for you. It's a close up picture of the ten-barreled Gatling gun Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) installed on China's nearly complete aircraft carrier Shi Lang ...

South Korean companies LIG Nex1 and Hanwha Systems have showcased models of the close-in weapon systems (CIWSs) each of them is proposing to meet the Republic of Korea Navy's (RoKN's) ‘CIWS-II' ...