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  2. Centurion C-RAM - Wikipedia

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    2300 meters. The Centurion C-RAM, also called the Land Phalanx Weapon System (LPWS), is an American Counter-Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) 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. The system is produced by Northrop ...

  3. C-RAM - Wikipedia

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    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] Both use a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) camera to allow their operators to visually identify incoming fire ...

  4. Phalanx CIWS - Wikipedia

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    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".

  5. MANTIS Air Defence System - Wikipedia

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    The MANTIS system is intended to detect, track and shoot down incoming projectiles before they can reach their target within very close range. The system itself is based on Oerlikon Contraves' Skyshield air defence gun system. A MANTIS system consists of six 35 mm automatic guns (capable of firing 1,000 rounds per minute), a ground control unit ...

  6. Talk:Centurion C-RAM - Wikipedia

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    Raytheon called it Centurion Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System in their press release. GraemeLeggett 11:29, 4 April 2024 (UTC) Yes and no, Centurion appears to be the common name, used in a couple of the other articles, but its actual name is the “Centurion Land-Based Phalanx Weapon system. Also called Centurion LBWs or Centurion C-RAM.

  7. Skyshield - Wikipedia

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    Skyshield air-defence system is a modular, light weight, short range air defense (SHORAD) system developed by the Swiss corporation Oerlikon Contraves (now a subsidiary of Rheinmetall of Germany). The successor to the Skyguard defense system, Skyshield is intended to rapidly acquire and destroy threatening aircraft and missiles, as well as to ...

  8. Centurion (tank) - Wikipedia

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    The FV4007 Centurion was the primary British Army main battle tank of the post- World War II period. Introduced in 1945, it is widely considered to be one of the most successful post-war tank designs, remaining in production into the 1960s, and seeing combat into the 1980s. [4][5][6][7][8][9] The chassis was adapted for several other roles, and ...

  9. Phase-change memory - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Phase-change memory. Phase-change memory (also known as PCM, PCME, PRAM, PCRAM, OUM (ovonic unified memory) and C-RAM or CRAM (chalcogenide RAM)) is a type of non-volatile random-access memory. PRAMs exploit the unique behaviour of chalcogenide glass. In PCM, heat produced by the passage of an electric current through a heating ...