Raytheon.
Raytheon will provide its Phalanx phalanx, ancient Greek formation of infantry. The soldiers were arrayed in rows (8 or 16), with arms at the ready, making a solid block that could sweep bristling through the more dispersed ranks of the enemy. Block 1B close-in weapon system A Close-in weapon system (CIWS) is a naval shipboard weapon system for detecting and destroying incoming anti-ship missiles and enemy aircraft at short range (the threat(s) having penetrated the ship's available outer defences). Typically, the acronym is pronounced "Sea-whiz". to the US Navy for its LHA A popular freeware compression program developed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki that uses a variant of the LZW (LZ77) dictionary method followed by a Huffman coding stage. It runs on PCs, Unix and other platforms as its source code is also free. 6 class amphibious assault ships. The Phalanx
is a rapid-fire, computer-controlled radar and 20-mm Gaffing-gun system,
and Block 1B contains a fully integrated radar/infrared surveillance and
tracking sensor suite. Financial details under this agreement were not
released.
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