Essentially a 4000 rounds-per-minute Gatling gun mounted underneath a radar, these autonomous systems (colloquially called R2-D2s by the Navy) spray a wall of bullets at incoming targets, reacting faster than any human could. Regularly criticized (and now being replaced in the Navy), Phalanx is proving in the deserts of Iraq what it never got to on the ocean: it works.
Make sure to wait for the end, when you get to see a night-firing in Iraq.
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