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CIWS is not very effective against fast sea skimming missiles, you'd have to expend expensive interceptors in a way that could threaten your magazine capacity.
by sudosysgen 3y ago
CIWS is not very effective against fast sea skimming missiles, you'd have to expend expensive interceptors in a way that could threaten your magazine capacity.
- nradov 3y agoAnd that's why the US Navy is gradually phasing out CIWS and replacing them with SeaRAM plus upgraded EW systems.
- sudosysgen 3y agoSure, but it's not like the rest of the world is standing still. Iran and China are starting to pump out cheap ballistic antiship missiles, and they're also demonstrating combined low-cost EO/IR/Radar seekers to defeat EW. Russia has deployed semi-autonomous EO seekers on their low-cost Lancet drones (image recognition detects a target, the operator confirms it, and then the drone navigates itself), and China even has EO/Radar fusion in their latest generation of air-to-air missiles. Also, SeaRAM only has 12 missiles worth of depth. Increasingly, it just seems like large surface ships are not very survivable at close ranges.