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Originally Posted by ray dekker
The German Navy by the way has 2 RAM on every ship from Corvette size up (around 1800 t) and one on the speedboats (40 knots around 400 t)
they don`t use any cannon based CIWS (Millennium, Phalanx, Goalkeeper,etc.)
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Germany has a different approach however: They use a "package" thinking.
Every German frontline ship (corvettes, frigates, the AORs are fitted-for-but-not-with) has an
identical "close-self-defence" package that currently consists of a set of:
- two RAM Block 1 (against missiles/aircraft)
- two 27mm guns (against boats at higher range)
- multiple (two-four depending on size) decoy launchers (MASS usually)
- two .50cal MGs (against boats at close range)
Even the F125 will have
exactly that package - the asymmetric-warfare .50cal RWS systems do not cut into it, it'll e.g. still have the manually-controlled MGs despite them.
Any and all changes to that package are applied fleet-wide - last one was exchange of older decoy systems for MASS, before that the exchange of manually-controlled 20mm guns for 27mm remote-controlled systems.
I'd predict the next large upgrade to the package to be HAS mode for the RAM (giving it full above-water all-target spectrum capability) btw.
The German Navy does not see ESSM at the "close-self-defence layer", but at the "limited-escort-defence layer", mostly due to its range and VLS requirement, just like NSSM before.
The speedboats btw always operate in packs of two minimum, which with overlapping fire have the same as above (sans the 27mm guns for lack of space).