The RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile is a lightweight ship self-defense missile jointly developed by the United States and Germany. It is designed for quick reaction against anti-ship cruise missiles, aircraft, helicopters, and certain asymmetric air or surface threats.
RAM uses a compact launcher and does not require continuous shipboard illumination after launch. That allows a ship to engage fast sea-skimming threats with a fire-and-forget weapon, complementing guns, electronic warfare, decoys, and larger surface-to-air missiles in a layered defense system.
The missile is important because modern ships face dense anti-ship missile threats and may not have time for long engagement chains at close range. RAM provides a practical final missile layer for amphibious ships, carriers, corvettes, and other vessels that need fast self-defense.
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