Inside the Phalanx CIWS: How the US Navy’s Auto-Cannon Defends Against Missile Swarms From Skull to Skeleton — The Most ...

Operation Phalanx is the successor operation to Operation Jump Start, which was declared by former President Bush authorizing up to 6,000 National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from 2006 through 2008.

The guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam fires a Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) during a live-fire exercise, Philippine Sea, on June 6, 2022. Santiago Navarro/U.S. Navy. CNN — ...