Phalanx close-in weapons system/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Phalanx close-in weapons system.

A 20mm autocannon system originally for shipboard final defense against subsonic anti-shipping missiles, obsolescent in that role but being deployed for land-based counter-rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM) defense against guerrilla rockets.

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