The MK-15 Phalanx CIWS provides ships of the U.S. Navy with an inner layer point defense capability against Anti Ship Missiles, aircraft, and littoral warfare threats that have penetrated other ...

The United States military’s Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) was employed just a year ... could fire 180 rounds of special caseless 9mm ammunition in less than one-hundredth of a second.