Here’s an interesting
contract related to the Phalanx CIWS.
“Raytheon Co.,
Tucson, Arizona, is being awarded a $159,958,743 firm-fixed-price contract for
MK 15 Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) upgrades and conversions, system overhauls
and associated hardware. … This contract includes options which, if
exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $461,712,911.“
I’m surprised by this. I had
thought the CIWS was considered obsolete by the Navy, being superseded by the
RAM/SeaRAM system. The announcement did
not specify how many systems were covered under this contract but it’s quite a
bit of money, regardless, for a system that is being phased out.
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