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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel, as we explore how the U.S. Navy defends its warships and aircraft carriers against ...

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 ...

FORT SILL, Okla. – 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (5-5 ADA) conducted air load training with a Land-based Phalanx Weapon System (LPWS) on September 18 at Altus Air Force Base that ...

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 ...

Danish shipping firm AP Moller-Maersk announced it was pausing sailing in the Red Sea for 48 hours after Houthi militants attacked a Maersk ship twice—just days after the company had resumed sailing ...