The mother of all CIWS systems. The Kashtan is one large and destructive beast. It packs a pair of 30mm cannons and features no less than eight short range radio guided 9m311 surface-to-air ...

By virtue of its caliber, performance exceeds that of the most famous CIWS, the U.S.20mm Vulcan Phalanx , but remains inferior to the Russian Kashtan (Chestnut) twin 30mm CIWS. Its electronics ...

Destroyer Che yong during weapons test this week. KCNA Photo North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for accelerating the nuclear weapon capability of the Korean People’s Army Navy as he saw the ...

These stealth guided missile frigates are also fitted with a 100 mm A-190E naval gun, a 76 mm Oto Melara naval gun, 2 AK-630 CIWS and 2 Kashtan CIWS guns, two 533 mm torpedo tubes, apart from a ...

The Kashtan (Russian: Каштан, English: Chestnut) close-in weapon system (CIWS) is a modern naval air defense gun-missile system deployed by the Russian Navy. It is found on the aircraft ...