US finalizing plans to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine, US officials say

[CrabbyAppleton]

31. Phalanx alone won't do...

Phalanx was designed as a ship mounted system. It was adapted to create the Centurion C-RAM (Combined Rocket Artillery Morter) system which still won't do what you describe but is closer to what you envision.

The Land Mounted Phalanx Weapons System (LPWS) combined with C-RAM needs the addition of several other sensor systems like the Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2), Lightweight Counter Mortar Radars (LCMR), Firefinder radars, Ka-band Multi-Function Radio Frequency Systems (MFRFS), Air and Missile Defense Workstation (AMDWS), and several other components to handle drones. This stuff isn't cheap.

Mount all this stuff on several Oskosh by Gosh mobile prime movers with the generator sytems and you're talking about a $15 million system (in 2020 dollars) to cover, hell I don't remember, 2 square klicks of turf?

LPWS uses M940 ammo to reduce collateral damage, $20,000 to 60,000 per intercept.

Not cheap for limited area coverage.

Crabby