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 ...

This formation was known as a ‘phalanx’. A hoplite had to pay for ... Fixed to the front of the trireme was a sharp metal ram. Image caption, A replica of an Athenian trireme warship at ...