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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mk 15 phalanx garage A video has recently emerged showing what, at first glance, seems to be a Mk 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon ...

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 Phalanx Close-In Weapon System is the final shield between a warship and an incoming missile. Built around the legendary M61 Vulcan rotary cannon, it fires tungsten or depleted uranium ...

The Mk 15 Phalanx close-in weapon system. South Korea is looking to procure between two and six units of the weapon system, subject to US approval. (US Navy) The South Korean government has raised a ...

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 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 ...

The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon a $279.2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide functional management support for the Land-based Phalanx Weapon System. Work locations and funding will be ...