Navy CIWS Gun System Locks Onto Incoming Aircraft

2016-04-19 1

A Phalanx CIWS close-in weapon system aboard USS Germantown trains itself on an AV-8B Harrier during an operational test. AiirSource Military covers events .
Footage shows loading the Phalanx Close In Weapons System (CIWS) seewiz and test firing from three different U.S. Navy ships - USS Underwood (FFG-36), .
more at The Laser Weapon System (LaWS) temporarily installed aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) (shown here .
Phalanx - This is the land based version of the Phalanx (CIWS) gun system built by Raytheon called the Land-Based Phalanx Weapons System or LPWS.

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