Posted on 03/07/2015 5:40:12 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Navy commander unveiled plans for the manufacturing of a homegrown version of the Phalanx, a close-in weapon system (CIWS) on board military vessels for defense against anti-ship missiles.
“The research work has now started on the Phalanx system to build its Iranian model,” Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari told the Tasnim News Agency. “The Western type of the Phalanx system is the most advanced one, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will also move to produce that system definitely,” the commander noted.
Consisting of a radar-guided Gatling gun mounted on a swiveling base, the Phalanx has been used by multiple Navies around the world, notably by the US Navy on every class of surface combat ship.
Iranian experts have already produced a powerful Gatling gun, dubbed “Moharram”.
The six-barrel weapon is a 50 caliber firearm with the high rate of fire of 2,000-2,500 rounds per minute.
The fast machine gun can also be mounted on a broad range of military vehicles, choppers, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), warships and destroyers.
And now they’ll have depleted uranium, thanks to Barry!!
American Exceptionalism must be suppressed.
Probably manned by those scary SAND SPIDERS, right..?
Air support provided by that whiz-bang stealth fighter model.
Extra SUPER scary..!
LOL!
Lockheed-Martin unveiled a laser that can melt a truck from a mile away in under a minute, there’s a thread.. with a dead F-159 demo victim. :(
Can this laser perform underwater, I wonder? Burn big holes in Iranian ships?
What is that?
1. F-313, a fake Iranian stealth jet.
2. Blatant photoshop copy-and-pastes of a surface-to-surface missile launch.
3. Digital mock-up of Kandahar beast, aka, RQ-170.
4. Iranian copies of Scan Eagle, probably void of innards.
There are MANY other examples, though they don’t falsify ALL reports of new Iranian weapons.
Err....a few gains of salt, shall we say.
Thanks. It’s always nice to know what something is.
LOL
The Phalanx is obsolete and has been almost completely replaced by the Rolling Airframe Missile as the preferred CIWS.
can you say propaganda boys and girls.
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