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First Ever Phalanx CIWS Test on HMS Queen Elizabeth

The HMS Queen Elizabeth has successfully conducted its first-ever test-firing of the Phalanx CIWS, a critical last line of ...
UPI

Raytheon tests new electric gun for Phalanx weapon system

April 5 (UPI) --A new electric gun that allows varying rates of fire by the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System has been successfully tested by Raytheon. The new electric gun design replaces the Phalanx's ...
StrategyPage

Air Defense: Phalanx Fitted With Laser and Passes Test

January11, 2007: Responding to an Israeli search (and offers of quick sales) for anti-rocket/ mortar systems, the company (Raytheon) that makes the Phalanx anti-ship missile system, has adapted a ...
Business Insider

New electric gun for Phalanx® Close-In Weapon System passes first test

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz., April 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) successfully tested a new electric gun for the Phalanx® Close-In Weapon System. The upgrade allows soldiers and ...
Scoop

TE MANA successfully test fires PHALANX Close-In Weapons

HMNZS TE MANA has successfully test-fired her Close in Weapons System (CIWS) during exercises in the South China Sea. The CIWS (also known as a Phalanx) is a 6 barreled radar controlled 20mm machine ...
SlashGear

Phalanx CIWS Explained: How The Navy's Computer-Controlled Weapon Works

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 ...
Aviation Week

Raytheon to test laser Phalanx anti-mortar system

FARNBOROUGH – Raytheon is planning to display its new Laser Phalanx, a U.S. Navy ship defense gun modified for an anti-mortar role for ground troops, here at this week’s Farnborough air show outside ...