Lockheed Martin to install SeaRAM on LCS 17

The U.S. Navy’s LCS 17 will get the SeaRAM instead of the usual RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM).

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SeaRAM 1” by US Navy – US Navy. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The SeaRAM is a modified Phalanx CIWS Mk-15 Block 1B with an 11-cell RAM launcher. This system has been installed on the Independence-class of LCS.

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