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The Centurion C-RAM, also called the Land Phalanx Weapon System (LPWS), is an American Counter-Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar air defense artillery system. The system was developed in 2004, during and after the Iraq War identified a weakness in ground-based anti-projectile artillery.
A video of a US test fire. The 20mm Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System (also called Centurion C-RAM) is a land-based variant of the U.S. Navy's Phalanx close-in weapon system, a radar-controlled rapid-fire gun for close-in protection of vessels from missiles. [1]
Centurion C-RAM. Seeking a solution to continual rocket and mortar attacks on bases in Iraq, the U.S. Army requested a quick-to-field antiprojectile system in May 2004, as part of its Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar initiative. [30] The result of this program was the "Centurion".
Centurion: 20×102 mm: C-RAM with rotary cannon system United States: Unknown: Trailer-mounted version of the Phalanx CIWS: AN/TWQ-1: 70 mm Self-propelled SHORAD United States: 453 [33] System mounted on HMMWV: M-SHORAD: 180 mm 70 mm 30×113 mm, 7.62×51 mm NATO. Self-propelled SHORAD United States Italy: 144 planned in 2018; [41] 80 estimated ...
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C-RAM, short for counter rocket, artillery, and mortar, is a set of systems used to detect and/or destroy incoming rockets, artillery, and mortar rounds in the air. C-RAM may also refer to: Centurion C-RAM, American air defense artillery system; Chalcogenide RAM, an alternative name for phase-change memory
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Connecticut is set to pay nearly $5.9 million to the family of a disabled man who was wrongly imprisoned in his 1992 murder conviction before he was freed in 2015.