Pilot: With my Zero, I’ll surely evade those flak cannons on the American ships. Phalanx: “ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?”

WW2 AA: "You got a hole on your left wing!!" CIWS: *there is no more plane left*

The CIWS ensures that EVERY pilot is a Kamikaze...

when you beat the game and decide to go back to level 1 for laughs

Stuka Jericho siren: “I’m the scariest sound to exist.” CIWS: “You sure about that?”

little fun fact, onboard a ship the CIWS is designed with something called multiple weapons coordinator which prevents it from both guns shooting at the same target. Saves ammo and allows 2 or more engagements simultaneously.

Rated: "Things that aren't particularly fair" out of 10.

Remember, for every tracer round, there's 4 more you don't see.

The movie The Final Countdown really needs a remake.

1:09 "It was at this moment Yoshida knew, he fucked up."

When the north korean airforce decides to mobilize:

Imagine they were flying above the clouds looking for the fleet, not knowing they were overhead, and suddenly they started getting shot down Through the clouds. They would be so confused.

Running out of ammo is the biggest risk. R2D2 chews through rounds.

We had two of those on the Aegis Class Cruiser I served on. The sound of "The Whale Fart". Glad we had them, but we never wanted to need them.

Girls ASMR: rain Boys ASMR:

When you're the first one to advance to Information Age in Civilization.

Nobody: Siren: Incoming incoming incoming!

As yes R2D2’s younger brother, R2FU!

Remember times when ships were sitting ducks and best way to combat them were with other aircraft?

Ah reminds me of when I was in Afghanistan. Everything other day that damn alarm was going off

I've seen a C-RAM system firing at incoming. It was a sight to behold

“NO YOU CANT WIPE US OUT WITHOUT TAKING HARM YOURSELF!” “Haha gun go brrrr”

As someone who's been saved by these a few times (the CRAM version), they're pretty awesome

Pilot: Ah yes, another successful day of dodging useless American flak CIWS: Some think they can outsmart me... maybe... maybe. But I've yet to meet one who can outsmart bullet.

Pilot : what is happening? are they using aimbot hax?! CIWS : check that later.

"Great Mariana's turkey shoot, 2020 colorized"

Trust me, if WWII planes are getting close enough for your Phalanx CIWS to engage, some major problems have occurred...

*Hostile aircraft exists* CIWS: "and I took that personally"

This reminds me a lot to the anime Zipang

Suddenly a lot of "NANI!!?" was heard in japanese radios.

I was told I would be getting asmr wasn’t disappointed

Now that would be a lot of lead. For those who have never had to load tracers in their arms, only every fifth round is a tracer. Basically, for every tracer you visibly see, there's four other projectiles you can't see.

Clearly this person has never had to reload a CIWS. 😂

This is just straight up magnifying glass to ants vibe all over it.

This is what happens in War Thunder when you get to close to the enemy's airfield

The USN's biggest problem would be keeping the phalanx supplied with ammo.

A remake of the movie, "The Final Countdown" involving these would be rather anticlimactic.

I don't know why but I can't stop laughing my ass off at this.

Remind me of the manga Zipang, where a japanese destroyer from the modern japanese navy ends up in the past, right before the battle of Midway. It wipes out an entire squadron of dive bombers using the main gun turret, missiles and the CIWS.

Man's busting out the uno reverse at pearl harbour

Check out Zipang, it's an Anime in which a Japanese Aegis destroyer accidently travels back to WW2, sort of like Final Countdown. They initially try to stay out of it, but there's a scene where a US Carrier squadron attack, and scoff at it's single gun mount, then get wrecked by accurate radar guided 5", missile and CIWS fire.

Next time send a wave of 50. Then 2 waves of 40 each approaching from 2 seperate directions.

The pilots who were lucky to not be turned to swiss as they descend to their doom: "Dame da ne! Dame yo... Dame na no yo..."

Now imagine if they had Aegis cruisers back then.

watch an anime called "zaipan" , it shows exactly what modern day technology wud do to U.S and Japanese ww2 units in anime form

I imagine the CIWS would run out of ammo under a massive attack.

!!!!! WARNING TO COMBAT VETS !!!!!! There is a Rocket Strike alarm that goes off in the beginning of the video. Posting this because I know that some people are sensitive to this.

they wouldve run out of ammo long ago, before the end of the encounter.

Make a scenario where they attack from low alt & 100 aircraft at once with only one arleigh cruiser, then I'll be satisfied

"Splash the Zeros" comes to mind.....

"Did I fire 6000 rounds, or only 5000? Do you feel lucky?"

I worked on and taught weapon systems for the navy for many years. No doubt this weapon system would have no problem engaging and eliminating those targets. A few key details: This weapon system has the ability to coordinate with other mounts in such a way that one target is not being engaged with more than one weapon. In a few engagements more than one mount was engaging a single target. Tactically this is bad. It's a waste of ammo and time. Each mount only has about 20 seconds worth of ammo. Furthermore these ships are operating way too close together. In fleet operations, ships operate several miles apart with overlapping fields of fire with overlapping defensive bubbles (detection and engagement ranges) ensuring one ship doesn't fire upon another. This weapon system is just a piece of an entire weapons suite that makes up several fields of fire and engagement bubbles that all work together to defend the fleet. What is a really good detail is how close the targets are getting for engagement. WW2 aircraft are very slow modern standards. This weapon system prioritizes targets based on speed and will engage base on soonest approach. The slower a target the longer the weapon will wait and allow the target to get closer to engage and the faster the target the sooner and farther out it will engage.

How does ammunition come to ciws. Does it have a belt feed to the magazine, or does it carry it's own ammo and has to be reloaded?

Meanwhile AA flak guns in a corner: Intense sobbing noises

This reminds me of the anime Zipang. Now I have "Mirai" playing in the background to enhance the experience.

Basically the movie The Final Countdown if they stayed to take on the forces that attacked Pearl Harbour!

IJN: no you cant just time travel to get cooler guns!!!!! USN: Phalanx go Brrrrrrrrrrrrr

A carrier is typically escorted by at least one cruiser and a destroyer squadron of at least two destroyers or frigates. That's 7 or 8 Phalanxes usually with ships deployed to have overlapping coverage and dozens of missile launchers for anti-aircraft use... among other weapons. Remember the American motto in war: "If you throw enough shit at it... you didn't throw enough shit at it."

The Sea Sparrows would take them all out long before they would get in range of the CIWS. There are layers of defenses and CIWS is the last line.

heh, still blows me away with Phalanx CIWS that only every third round or so is a tracer, so theres a few rounds between those red streaks

Technological progress is incredible. You can see a 0 AD army fighting 1000 AD army at similar disadvantage of 1945 army fighting 1995 army. 1000 year vs 50 years. Just incredible!!!

GaMiNG SL515: Walks around on the deck of a ship. Me: "Witchcraft!"

Worth mentioning the WW 2 USN proximity fuse gutted more than a few IJN attack waves

Lots of fun, but, silly, of course. Big carriers are surrounded by layers of protective elements: frigates, destroyers, SSNs....and the CAP elements. Bad guys would certainly never get within visual, let alone weapon range...CWIS would never go hot. My brother-in-law law was on the Combat Info aCenter of a super carrier operating during one of the Iraq dustups, and after his retirement said to me: " Man, I was safer than the President! Billions of dollars of gear and the best and brightest folks in the USA were tasked to keep me and my ship safe." But good fun....good video!

...if the enemy comes so close to your carrier, that you've to use the CIWS, something went terribly wrong before...! ;-)

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! YOU CAN'T JUST SHOOT DOWN ALL OF MY PLANES WITH ONE SHIP!!!!" "haha ciws go brrrrr"

I think this video was made just for me. I often picture what it would have been like if the allies had F-4s and napalm in the first world war and a few Abrams in France during the second.

This is the scenario I’d like to see animated. To decrease the risk to the ships and lighten the load/conserve ammunition on the Phalanx, a salvo of a couple dozen ESSM Block 2’s to take out the leaders and heavy bombers and disorient the attack wing at around 25 miles out, then salvo several dozen RAM Block 2’s to discourage the rest at around 6 miles out, then finally mopping up the rest with the phalanx. Not as much of a fireworks display close in, just increasing the odds of survival.

CIWS: "BRRRRR" Translate: "Don't even think about it"

You would have to specify what model of Phalanx was being used. The origional woudn't lock on to something unless it was going a certain speed. That's why we had helicopters with M-60 door guns flying patrols in case something like a Cessna came at the battlegroup.

Zero: I’ll get to the carrier and kamikaze it! American Carrier with Phalanx: “Nah dog...”

I love the way some of the airplanes come in with navigation lights on and ships just sitting dead in the water. 🧐

CIWS: Delivering the finest American hotdogs to your doorstep in truly frightening amounts since 1980

The incoming thing is a Army or Marine base thing as they had variants made for them. Incoming would refer to a mortar or artillery attack on their position. The alert telling them to seek shelter. You do not hear that on a Naval ship.

This is actually a great showcase to why Phalanx system is inadequate in modern warfare, where ships defenses would be saturated by multiple incoming supersonic anti ship missiles. Now grated, there hasn't been a naval engagement since WW2, but in 1991, during the first Gulf War, Silkworm missiles was fired at the USS Missouri, they were intercepted by British destroyers anti air systems, but the footage clearly shows that the Phalanx system has some trouble dealing with multiple targets. The rule of thumb is that you send two missiles per defense system. So against an Iowa class battleship which had 2 phalanx, 1 EW suit and chaffs on each side, you would send 8 missiles depending on missile type. This would greatly make that particular ship hard pressed to defend against hits. Now the Iowas could probably take multiple missile hits before being mission killed, but your really want to avoid that! So Phalanx system is clearly needs to be implemented as part of a layered defense with longer range than 1.5 miles! But, this is super cool video none the less!

The phalanx guns only hold about 1,200 rounds in the drum. If my memory holds. They shoot about a hundred rounds as a burst that is tracked to the target. Then another burst with any correction. Repeated. They do not just hose the sky. They only have ammunition for about three engagements. My brother's replenishment ship had two of the "Captain it won't shoot (CIWS)" things. We actually shot one of them. The other was broken. Below deck there was some sort of coordination system.

Those incoming alarms really brings up memories

Problem with this is Phalanx only has 1500 rounds of ammo and takes 5 mins to reload. There are 5 phalanx in play here (DDG has 2 and CVN has 3) Phalanx runs dry after 15 seconds of fire. Phalanx would engage each aircraft longer than in this video until its flight path is no longer a threat so Kamikaze attacks will cause Phalanx to focus on them. Finally torpedo bombers could stay out of range and drop torps from 3km away whilst phalanx engages at around 1000m

You'd think that the CIWS could accurately take down each plane with just a very short burst given how slowly they're flying compared to the threats the system was built to counter.

the crew just chillin with coffe lmao

Remember for every 1 tracer round you see, there are 5 between them which you can't see...

This reminds me of how the USS Texas used to be in world of warships. One match I recall had 2 CV per side and I hung back in my Texas to defend our carriers against a nasty sneak attack, the whole stern of the ship was just a mass of tracers and muzzle flash.

Cwis has a 1000 round drum and a lengthy reload, for WW2 I think a radar directed 5 inch or 40mm mount is still superiors for the vast number of planes the Japanese would use

I love how they keep coming!!

imagine trying to ambush a fleet of ships only for them to suddenly send glowing red whips and you see like 5 of your wingmen burst into flames, then in the distance you just hear "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"

Imagine a World of Warships event where players try to defeat a modern day super carrier. AA guns would be almost useless against jets, the carrier would be able to see you at all times thanks to superior radar, Aircraft carrier players would be useful for locating the super carrier but not much else. It would be like a WoWS boss battle.

I worked at General Dynamics for a while in the early 80's, and got to see Phalanx live and in person. It's as bad ass as this video makes it out to be.

If the Alamo had 3 ar15s with 1000 rounds total. Hmmmm.

They would need to do a counter-intelligence operation to suggest that the zeros were more effective on target, thereby promoting their use by the enemy.

So satisfying to watch.

I DO love how the Phalanxes vomit bullets into the air!

I love how the alarm and the computer voice sound less scary than a seat belt warning.

Nice video, but I feel like some of those planes (especially the squadrons near the end) could’ve gotten a few attacks off on the stationary broadside Aircraft Carrier.

The last thing those pilots see is just a fast bullets through their window

This would have beeen seriously deadly and feared by the Axis Powers.

Could you try swapping US phalanx with the Russian Kashtan CIWS?

Ive always think f tht.. The what ifs.. Awesome vid

1 phalanx Ciws would fire more 20mm rounds/min than 9 wirbelwinds, and the wirbelwind itself was a nightmare to ww2 aircrafts.

Oh so this is what it looks like from a Halland’s perspective on world of warships

This is just the plot of the Axis of Time trilogy novels