Navy Ship Defense Weapon Hits Enemy Missiles

For instance, may ships have Aegis Radar and SM-3 missiles for long-range ballistic missile defense. Moving to threats a litter closer, such as those inside the earth’s atmosphere such as anti-ship cruise missiles, enemy aircraft, drones and surface ships, the Navy has the SM-6, ESSM, Rolling Airframe Missile and SeaRAM for slightly closer threats. When it comes to defending the ship from the closest-in threats, many ships have the Close-In-Weapons System, or CIWS, which fires a 20-mm rapid-fire Phalanx gun toward fast approaching surface and airborne threats.

Phalanx does it much cheaper, and probably more reliably.

Did anyone from the Navy apologize to the enemy this time? ;-) just kidding, everyone. This is a really impressive feat to read about, awesome job Navy!