A US Navy anti-aircraft system was spotted training its sights on a passenger plane in the sky as sailors laughed and pleaded for the machine to change its seeming course. The military MK 15 Phalanx ...
Think "Star Wars" at sea. The Navy and Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems have adapted Raytheon's Phalanx ship-defense system - sometimes nicknamed R2-D2 - to fire a laser at enemy aircraft. Last ...
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 ...
June 12, 2007: The United Arab Emirates has purchased seven U.S. RIM-116 "Rolling Air Frame" (RAM) anti-missile missile systems for six of their corvettes, and a land based training installation. Each ...