The automated Phalanx system features Gatling guns that can fire up to 4,500 20-millimeter rounds a minute, engaging projectiles or other targets at extremely close range. “The Phalanx weapon ...

Like the GAU-8 Avenger and the M134 Minigun, the MK15 Phalanx is a Gatling-style gun. The system, which weighs up to 13,600 pounds, is an autonomous last-chance defense system. The latest version ...

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 ...

Inside 10 miles, RAMs take over. The last line of defense is the venerable Phalanx 20 mm radar-guided Gatling gun (or CIWS, Close-In Weapons System), which takes on threats inside two miles. " ...

Per Raytheon: The SeaRAM Anti-Ship Missile Defense System is a spiral development of key attributes of the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System and the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Guided Weapon System.

The system continues to be built today in the much updated AK-630-M2 "Duet" system, which has a stealthy turret and packs a pair of 30mm gatling guns ... the Phalanx is euphemistically referred ...

The awesome Gatling gun was used to devastating operational effect in Vietnam. The radar-guided, rapid-firing Phalanx CIWS is a worthy successor to the Gatling. Defense Industry Daily noted in a ...

The MK 15 Phalanx is a powerful weapon that is designed ... Footage shows the anti-aircraft system aiming its Gatling gun at the plane flying through the sky. It's unclear where exactly the ...

The Gatling gun did see some limited use in the Civil ... the M61 Vulcan also serves as the basis for the U.S. Navy’s Mk 15 Phalanx close-in weapon system – the rapid-fire, computer-controlled ...

Two maintainers working on Belgian Air Force F-16AM fighter jet accidentally fired the plane’s M61 20-millimeter, six barreled Gatling gun ... the M61 is used in the Phalanx CIWS shipboard ...