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Thanks, that is as I thought as regards the doctrine and procedure.

I am sure the IDF's must be very similar.

I still want to find out if the reports about the systems not being active are true. I find that impossible to beleive or consider in such an environment. We shall see. As it is, I have come tobelieve at this point that these picks do not represent pics of after action damage.

I'm not too familiar with the follow-on variants of CIWS, as I retired in 1993, but the earlier models had 3 modes. Fully automated, Ready, and Manual. There may be some confusion in the J-Post's mind, about the difference between fully automated, and just plain "turned on". I know, we NEVER, NEVER, NEVER put ours into fully automated, unless we were fully at sea, and didn't have anything around us for a good 20 miles or so. R2D2 would track seagulls, and if it had had ammo in it, would have been blasting away. Our FC's were doing PMS one day, as our SH-2 Lamps was doing a close flyby, and they were testing FA mode. I was ASAC at the time, and got some very ripe and colorful radio traffic regarding that. Friggin' FC's turned out to be the bad guys, because they didn't notify CIC or the Bridge which checks they were doing, and JOOD didn't double check... but still... Technically, if R2D2 was in Ready mode, it was turned off. But the realities of the situation, are different than what most people think.