Counter rocket, artillery, and mortar, abbreviated C-RAM or counter-RAM, is a set of systems used to detect and/or destroy incoming rockets, artillery, and mortars before they hit their targets, or provide early warning.

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 Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar (C-RAM) / Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC) system was developed early during Operation Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom in order to protect ground forces and forward operating bases from the threat of rockets, artillery, and mortars.

2025年1月8日 · Phalanx is a rapid-fire, computer-controlled radar and 20 mm gun system that automatically acquires, tracks, and destroys enemy threats that have penetrated all other ship defense systems. The Phalanx was designed in the beginning as a …

C-RAM systems are designed to defend critical resources, deployed forces and key installations against the threat posed by indirect fires of rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds. They act autonomously with a short time and a high level of system automation.

2021年9月1日 · The gun system for short range C-RAM defense was a 50mm cannon at 200 rpm shooting 10 round bursts, used a Continuous Wave radar (not a standard Pulsed radar) from Technovative Applications using infererometer tech, as understand one continuously transmitting panel and three receiving panels to give the necessary angular accuracy for centimeter ...

While kinetic solutions like guns and missile interceptors are used to counter rockets and mortars, laser counter rocket, artil-lery, and mortar (C-RAM) systems present a promising solution to counter these chal-lenging threats in the near future.

Rocket, artillery, and mortar attacks were significant cause of hostile deaths in Iraq, and the CRAM directive came in response to an operational needs statement from the Multinational Corps-Iraq...

2021年6月9日 · Centurion C-RAM – This is the land, C-RAM version of the Navy’s Phalanx CIWS. It uses a 20 mm gun firing 4500 rpm and uses M940 ammunition designed to self-destruct beyond 2,000 meters to minimize collateral damage. The unit requires a 35 ton trailer mount which makes getting a unit ashore during an assault problematic.

2020年5月20日 · With a jaw-dropping capability of firing 4,500 rounds per minute, the C-RAM, which stands for Counter-Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar, can counter anything from enemy aircraft to missiles to...