Towering over the seas, the USS Nimitz is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier like no other. Displacing around 100,000 tons ...

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

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 ...

Raytheon Technologies (RTX) recently secured a $205 million contract with the U.S. Navy for the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System, a noteworthy development amid the recent 14% rise in RTX's stock price ...

South Korean defense contractor LIG Nex1 has completed the construction of a new facility for the serial production and testing of the CIWS-II close-in weapon system. The company announced this in a ...

LIG Nex1 is developing the Close-In Weapons System (CIWS)-II for ground use. CIWS is a weapon system that acts as the last line of defense when enemy missiles penetrate the defense shields of ...

An aircraft carrier is a vast ship (the world's largest aircraft carrier being over 1,100 feet long) that serves as a sort of mobile base for aircraft. They're friendly places to land, to refuel and ...

L&T announced that it has bagged a major contract from the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, for the supply of High Power Radars (HPR) to the Indian Air Force (IAF). (Image/Reuters) Larsen & ...

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 ...

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 ...