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2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
Team Kraken, the Victorian arm of Australian Medieval Combat, performed demonstration fights at Kryal Castle, Ballarat Victoria, Australia.
Sgt. Christopher Lee of 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command assembles a weapon during U.S. Army Europe's Best Warrior Competition in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Aug. 19. The competition is a weeklong event that tests Soldiers’ physical stamina, leadership and technical knowledge and skill. Winners in the Soldier and Noncommissioned Officer categories of the USAREUR competition will go on to compete at the Department of the Army level. (U. S. Army photo by Gertrud Zach)
Master Seaman Bobby Tanner of Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) MONCTON live fires on the Hammerhead targeting system effectively sinking it on the journey back home to Canada across the Atlantic Ocean on NEPTUNE TRIDENT on April 22, 2017.
Please credit : Corporal Ryan Moulton
Formation Imaging Services HS77-2017-0083-1505 HS77-2017-0083-1505
FF8's Grandaddy of them all, this tough SOB caused us all nightmares for years to come! And now it's here in Lego form!!
MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS). Block 1B with the improved barrel and FLIR.
20 мм Скорострельная Автоматическая Артиллерийская Система Ближнего Действия МК-15 Фаланга. Блок 1Б.
The MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS - pronounced "sea-whiz") is a fast-reaction, rapid-fire 20-millimeter gun system that provides US Navy ships with a terminal defense against anti-ship missiles that have penetrated other fleet defenses. Designed to engage anti-ship cruise missiles and fixed-wing aircraft at short range, Phalanx automatically engages functions usually performed by separate, independent systems such as search, detection, threat evaluation, acquisition, track, firing, target destruction, kill assessment and cease fire. Phalanx underwent operational tests and evaluation onboard USS Bigelow in 1977, and exceeded maintenance and reliability specifications. Phalanx production started in 1978 with orders for 23 USN and 14 Foreign Military Sales (FMS) systems.
Phalanx is a point-defense, total-weapon system consisting of two 20mm gun mounts that provide a terminal defense against incoming air targets. CIWS, without assistance from other shipboard systems, will automatically engage incoming anti-ship missiles and high-speed, low-level aircraft that have penetrated the ship primary defense envelope. As a unitized system, CIWS automatically performs search, detecting, tracking, threat evaluation, firing, and kill assessments of targets while providing for manual override. Each gun mount houses a fire control assembly and a gun subsystem. The fire control assembly is composed of a search radar for surveillance and detection of hostile targets and a track radar for aiming the gun while tracking a target. The unique closed-loop fire control system that tracks both the incoming target and the stream of outgoing projectiles (by monitoring their incoming noise signature) gives CIWS the capability to correct its aim to hit fast-moving targets, including ASMs.
The gun subsystem employs a gatling gun consisting of a rotating cluster of six barrels. The gatling gun fires a 20mm subcaliber sabot projectile using a heavy-metal (either tungsten or depleted uranium) 15mm penetrator surrounded by a plastic sabot and a light-weight metal pusher. The gatling gun fires 20mm ammunition at either 3,000 or 4,500 rounds-per-minute with a burst length of continuous, 60, or 100 rounds.
CIWS has been a mainstay self defense system aboard nearly every class of ship since the late 70s. It was originally designed to defeat low altitude antiship cruise missiles (ASCMs) and was called the block 0. As antiship cruise missiles became more complex in maneuvers and ability to be detected, and warfare areas moved from open ocean to littoral environments, CIWS has evolved to meet the threat.
Block 1 incorporated a new search antenna to detect high altitude missiles, improved search sensitivity, increased the ammunition available for firing by 50 percent, a pneumatic gun drive which increased the firing rate to 4500 rounds per minute, and started using tungsten ammunition as well as depleted uranium. Block I improvements provide increased elevation coverage, larger magazine space for increased round capacity, a variable and higher gun fire rate, and improved radar and processing capabilities.
Block 1A incorporated a new High Order Language Computer (HOLC) to provide more processing power over the obsolete general purpose digital computer, improved fire control algorithms to counter maneuvering targets, search multiple weapons coordination to better manage engagements, and an end-to-end testing function to better determine system functionality.
Block 1B Phalanx Surface Mode (PSUM) incorporates a side mounted Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR) which enables CIWS to engage low slow or hovering aircraft and surface craft. Additionally, the FLIR assists the radar in engaging some ASCMs bringing a greater chance of ship survivability. Block 1B uses a thermal imager Automatic Acquisition Video Tracker (AAVT) and stablilization system that provide surface mode and electro-optic (EO) angle track. These Block 1B enhancements will allow day/night detection capability and enable the CIWS to engage small surface targets, slow-moving air targets, and helicopters.
Baseline 2C improvements provide an integrated multi-weapon operations capability. During integrated operations, the command system controls CIWS sensors, target reports, mode employment, and doctrine. The sensors are utilized to provide 360 degree search and track coverage, while providing track data to, and receiving designations from, the Command system. This CIWS installation includes a conversion kit for each weapon group to facilitate ease and safety of maintenance; the "maintenance enclosure" kit installs the below-deck equipment for a gun mount in a prefabricated enclosure with the mount located above it.
Specifications
Primary FunctionAnti-ship missile defense
ContractorRaytheon Systems Company
(formerly Hughes Missile Systems Company and purchased from General Dynamics Pomona Division in 1992)
Weight12,500 pounds (5,625 kg)
Later models 13,600 pounds (6,120 kg)
RangeClassified
Gun TypeM-61A1 Gatling
Type of Fire3,000 rounds per minute
- Later models 4,500 rounds/min
(starting 1988 production, Pneumatic Gun Drive)
Magazine Capacity989 rounds
Later models 1,550 rounds
Caliber20mm
AmmunitionArmor Piercing Discarding Sabot (APDS),
Depleted Uranium or Tungsten sub-caliber penetrator.
SensorsSelf-contained search and track radar
Search Radar Ku-band; digital MTI
Track Radar Ku-band; pulse Doppler monopulse
E/O Sensor FLIR Imaging System with Automatic ACQ Tracker
Fire Control Director with closed-loop spotting
Gun Drive Pneumatic
Mount Drive Electric
Date Deployed1980 (aboard USS America)
11th Regiment, Advanced Camp Cadets pose for a photo after they qualified with their weapons. Cadets need to shoot a 23 out of 40 to qualify their weapon as part of Cadet Summer Training at Fort Knox, Ky., Jul 22. | Photos by Jordyn McCulley, CST Public Affairs Office.
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
Been gluing everything diving-related with this stuff. Seems to work well, but remember to roughen the rubber surfaces first!
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
Cadets Omar Parada (left,) University of Texas at El Paso, and Reece Crook, Furman University, perform the Table V portion of Weapons Qualification at Fort Knox, Ky., on July 23, 2021. Table V is a practice run of the test that is conducted at a faster speed to help Cadets build confidence in the weapon, ammunition, optics and training. | Photo by Oscar Fuentes, CST Public Affairs office.
Able Seaman Park loads the 50cal Heavy Machine Gun for Ordinary Seaman Hood during a proficiency shoot on Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship St. John’s, 10 Sept 2017.
Photo by: MCpl Chris Ringius
Formation Imaging Services Halifax HS01-2017-0940-065 HS01-2017-0940-065
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Arnold Young, left, Communications Section Chief, 21st Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team (21st WMD-CST), New Jersey National Guard, reviews the 21st‘s communications capabilities with Haki Çako, right, Director General, General Directorate of Civil Emergencies, Ministry of Defence, Republic of Albania, and Lt. Col. Robert Hysenllari, Staff Officer, Search and Rescue and Civil Emergencies, General Staff, Albanian Armed Forces, during a visit at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., July 31, 2019. The 21st WMD-CST supports civil authorities at man-made or natural disasters by identifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances, as well as assess the consequences, and advises on response measures. In 2001, the Republic of Albania signed a bilateral affairs agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense and New Jersey officially establishing the New Jersey-Albanian State Partnership Program. The National Guard State Partnership Program is a U.S. Department of Defense program managed by the National Guard that links U.S. States with partner countries for the purpose of supporting the security cooperation objectives of the geographic Combatant Commanders. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen)
"Lovely Weapons" - set of plexiglas objects. Project previous to Energy Stills inspired by the fantastic blades used by game heroes. Sex as a weapon can be seen as a classical concept.
Hand cut by router.
Garash Galeria, Mexico DF, Mexico, Jaunuary 2006
Digital 5 MgPx
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)
2nd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets learn how to assemble and disassemble M16 rifles June 17, 2018 at Fort Knox, KY. (Photo by Angela Yin)