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 ...

In what has to be one of the funniest and also creepiest military videos in some time, a Mk 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) is seen drawing a bead on a 737 passing over what appears to be a ...

There's certainly an argument that giving a computer too much control over any aspect of our lives is a dangerous thing. One day, they're developing the CPUs of other computers, and the next, they ...

The Navy destroyer Gravely used its Close-In Weapons System to take out a Houthi missile that got within a nautical mile of the warship on Tuesday, a senior defense official has confirmed. The ship is ...

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 ...

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 ...

TCG Sokullu Mehmet Paşa is pictured in late February with a new gun system installed in the place of its usual aft gun turret. While the whole gun turret and the associated radar and other sensor ...

A model of the South Korea-developed CIWS-II on display at MADEX 2023. (Janes/Ridzwan Rahmat) The Republic of Korea Navy's (RoKN's) Ulsan-class Batch III frigates will be equipped with the ...

The anti-aircraft gun upgrade to the Zu-23 converts the weapon into a fully electric system. (Larsen & Toubro) NEW DELHI — The Indian Air Force has launched a $1.5 billion program to buy ...