People tend to focus on the Phalanx system when speaking of USN missle defense systems. Well....
The point of AEGIS is not to allow a threat to get close enough to have to use your Phalanx CIWS (Close in Weapons System). The target (be it missle, gunboat, or jumbo jet) should have already been engaged by your air cover or long range missles long long before it's in range of point defense systems. If you have inbound missles or aircraft leaking through your perimeter defense and are forced to light up CIWS, you're in bad shape. Assuming that the inbound whatever it is is hit by the CIWS, be prepared to have your bridge and radar masts sprayed with hot shrapnel...if not large pieces of aircraft and whatever ordinance it was carrying. There's a reason its considered a "last ditch" line of defence.
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People tend to focus on the Phalanx system when speaking of USN missle defense systems. Well....
...if not large pieces of aircraft and whatever ordinance it was carrying. There's a reason its considered a "last ditch" line of defence.
The point of AEGIS is not to allow a threat to get close enough to have to use your Phalanx CIWS (Close in Weapons System). The target (be it missle, gunboat, or jumbo jet) should have already been engaged by your air cover or long range missles long long before it's in range of point defense systems. If you have inbound missles or aircraft leaking through your perimeter defense and are forced to light up CIWS, you're in bad shape. Assuming that the inbound whatever it is is hit by the CIWS, be prepared to have your bridge and radar masts sprayed with hot shrapnel