Guns and Countermeasures.

HMS Invincible had three Thales Nederland (formerly Signaal) Goalkeeper CIWS. Goalkeeper’s Gatling principle 30mm gun provides a maximum firing rate of 4,200 rounds a minute with a range of 1,500m.

HMS invincible guns

HMS Invincible was also equipped with two GAM-B01 20mm guns from Oerlikon-Contraves and BAE Systems, which have a maximum range of 2km and firing rate of 1,000 rounds a minute.

Countermeasures

The Invincible Class is fitted with the Thales Defence Type 675(2) jamming system and a UAT(8) electronic support measures system also supplied by Thales Defence (formerly Racal).

The ship’s decoy system is the Royal Navy’s Outfit DLJ with Sea Gnat. There are eight 130mm six-barrel launchers produced by Hunting Engineering. Chemring and Pains Wessex produce the Sea Gnat chaff and infra-red decoys.