Goalkeeper CIWS
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Specification
Gun info:
- Gun: GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm seven-barrel Gatling gun
- Rate of fire: 70 or 75 shots per second (4200 shots per minute)
- Weapons range: 350 to 1500 or 2000 meters (depending on ammo)
- Kill distance: 500 meters
- Tracking: can keep track of 18 targets and prioritize
- magazine size: 1190 shots
- burst size: 300 shots
- bursts per magazine: 4
- magazine reload time: 9 minutes (loading is done below deck)
- Manufacturer: Thales Navy Netherlands
- Units produced: 50+
- Cost: £8 Million
- Users: Royal Netherlands Navy, British Royal Navy, South Korean Navy
Comparison
Compared with the Phalanx CIWS the Goalkeeper is:
- more expensive: Goalkeeper costs more than twice as much as Phalanx;
- harder to install: Phalanx can be welded to any section of deck and plugged in ('bolt on'); Goalkeeper requires significant structural modifications ('deck penetration');
- different firing: Phalanx fires continuously until the target is destroyed, Goalkeeper fires a burst of at least 1 second (70 rounds) but can switch targets depending on threat to ship;
- equal weapons range: on average, a Phalanx 1B can kill targets out to 4,000 yards;
- more accurate: Phalanx kill distance is 300 meters;
- More impact: Goalkeepers new FMPDS (Frangible Metal Penetrator Discarding Sabot) provides more Kinetic energy than the Phalanx rounds;
- more tracking: Phalanx only keeps track of the current target;
- reloading: the Phalanx ammo drum is put directly into the gun, the Goalkeeper is reloaded below deck;
- used less: Phalanx is used by 22 navies;
- Goalkeeper can be operated in three modes - Auto, Semi-Auto and Manual allowing full operator operability.
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