The version of MLG27 (i.e. the standard 27mm guns used on German ships) that was just ordered for F126, MLG27-4.0 SeaSnake, is apparently being marketed by Rheinmetall "as a CIWS" since 2020.
The software for it - compared to previous versions - includes an autonomous target detection and multiple-target tracking mode which with man-in-the-loop fire confirmation will automatically combat incoming "both asymmetric threats including swarm tactics as well as highly agile, dynamic threats" (i.e. against missiles). Earlier versions of MLG27 could only track singular targets automatically, but they had to be found and marked by the operator first.
Due to its provenance as a light caliber gun it can do a bit more than other CIWS systems of similar caliber of course. Other modi include high-precision single shot, switchable bursts of any length between 5 and 170 rounds (the first version of MLG27 had preset 11 or 22 round bursts) as well as the possibility of indirect fire to externally provided coordinates with both point and area automatic fire modes.
The software for it - compared to previous versions - includes an autonomous target detection and multiple-target tracking mode which with man-in-the-loop fire confirmation will automatically combat incoming "both asymmetric threats including swarm tactics as well as highly agile, dynamic threats" (i.e. against missiles). Earlier versions of MLG27 could only track singular targets automatically, but they had to be found and marked by the operator first.
Due to its provenance as a light caliber gun it can do a bit more than other CIWS systems of similar caliber of course. Other modi include high-precision single shot, switchable bursts of any length between 5 and 170 rounds (the first version of MLG27 had preset 11 or 22 round bursts) as well as the possibility of indirect fire to externally provided coordinates with both point and area automatic fire modes.
