Up close and personal: the survival of warships in the littoral environment depends on layers of close-in defence systems to defeat both conventional and asymmetric threats.
Armada International › Vol. 29 Nbr. 6, December 2005
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Countermeasures: naval
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Up close and personal: the survival of warships in the littoral environment depends on layers of close-in defence systems to defeat both conventional and asymmetric threats.
The primary role of small and medium calibre guns has shifted to protection against asymmetric threats that are particularly acute in littoral operations. Warships routinely operate in coastal regions and shipping channels that are crowded with commercial vessels and pleasure craft of all nationalities and descriptions. In such situations an attack from terrorists using fast inshore attack craft, possibly approaching in swarms, usually comes with no warning. Terrorists can use guided missiles, man-portable rockets or pack their craft with explosives for a suicide attack. The scope of such attacks was demonstrated in October 2000 when a suicide craft attacked the US Navy's DDG 51 destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden. Israeli Navy patrol boats have long faced the danger of suicide attacks as they inspect vessels approaching Israel's ...
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