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Army

U.S. Forces Use C-RAM To Take Out Rocket Aimed At Kabul Airport

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, August 30th, 2021

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U.S. Forces Use C-RAM To Take Out Rocket Aimed At Kabul Airport

The Army's Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar (C-RAM) Intercept Land-based Phalanx Weapon System

U.S. military forces intercepted a rocket using the Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar (C-RAM) system during an early Monday morning attack aimed at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, occurring as withdrawal operations in Afghanistan were set to conclude later in the day A total of five rockets were aimed at the airfield, Pentagon officials told reporters, with the Raytheon Technologies [RTX]-built C-RAM Intercept Land-based Phalanx Weapon System taking out one rocket, while three others landed outside the airfield and the remaining…

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