ROK (South Korea) Surface Ships

Sounds like CIWS-2 is closer to Goalkeeper than Phalanx, and that's not necessarily a great thing. Goalkeeper was a lot heavier and needed space below the deck, while Phalanx sat on the deck and only needed power and cooling run to it.

If CIWS-2 is like Phalanx in that it sits on the deck and only needs power and cooling (and isn't too much heavier), it'd be just this side of trivial to replace the older Phalanx units. Bring a crane to the dock and a flatbed holding the CIWS-2 and having a space to drop the Phalanx. Phalanx gets disconnected from power and cooling and the deck mount, then picked up by crane and swung onto the trailer. Crane then picks up CIWS-2 and swings it back over to the ship and drops it onto the existing Phalanx base mount. Bolt it down and connect power and cooling, job's done in half a day.

Which also gives the ROK a bunch of Phalanx CRAM units.
 

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