Shockingly, there are some instances where the US Navy’s Phalanx Close-In Weapons System’s (CIWS) red hot wall of 20mm tungsten isn’t enough to neutralize incoming threats—like against fast moving ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: The defensive envelope for SeaRAM is significant, as it can destroy cruise missiles, enemy drones and other surface threats such as approaching vessels or small boats ...
The Navy plans to further upgrade, integrate and “fire-off” its SeaRAM ship defense deck-fired interceptor weapon now arming a wide range of its surface fleet. The SeaRAM weapons system, designed to ...
April 12, 2006: The Phalanx anti-missile system is being replaced by SeaRAM. What's interesting about this is that SeaRAM is basically the Phalanx system, with the 20mm gun replaced with a box of ...
The four ballistic missile defense destroyers patrolling 6th Fleet will get a self-protection upgrade beginning this year, as the Navy integrates Raytheon’s Sea Rolling Airframe Missile (SeaRAM) onto ...
Raytheon will upgrade 19 Phalanx Close-in Weapon Systems and supply four SeaRAM Anti-ship Missile Defence Systems for the US Navy under a $136.2 million contract announced on 11 September. In addition ...
Raytheon last week unveiled the first development model of its SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system. SeaRAM, which combines the technology used in the Phalanx Block 1B Close-in Weapons System (CIWS ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky ., March 18, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has delivered its SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense weapon system for installation aboard the littoral combat ship USS ...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a potential $398.6 million contract by the U.S. Navy to provide design agent engineering and technical services for the military branch’s close-in weapon and anti ...
On Tuesday, the US Navy announced that the USS Coronado had completed initial operational tests and evaluations with Raytheon's SeaRAM antiship missile-defense system and, in doing so, answered a big ...
In naval circles, littoral areas are the hotspots for future conflict, but sending ships close to shore is like steaming into a shooting gallery. To provide more protection, the US Navy recently ...
The U.S. Navy successfully fired a Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) from a SeaRAM launcher for the first time on an Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The missile was launched during a ...