Updated 16 June 2010
First operational Phalanx Mounting aboard
USS King DLG-10 (later DDG-41)
Photograph courtesy of Dan Lamkin of NAVSEA
and Mark Donovan, Ship Historian, USS
King Association
Phalanx Block 1B
US Navy Photograph
Reloading a CIWS aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt
CVN-71 in May 1998
US Navy Photograph No. 990528-N-2003S-002-TR212
Loading ammunition into a Phalanx mounting
on USS George Washington CVN-73 in January 2004
The join-line of the sabot can be clearly
seen in this picture
US Navy Photograph No. 040122-N-3986D-002
Lifting a Phalanx CIWS onto USCG Bertholf
(WMSL 750) at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Pascagoula, Mississippi
USCG Photograph
Diagram copyrighted by Raytheon
Cross-section of Mark 149 APDS Round
Sketch copyrighted by General
Dynamics Company
Dimensional Sketch of Mark 149 Round
Evolution of Phalanx Systems
Sketch copyrighted by Raytheon
HMS Daring Movies including 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
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31 October 2007 - Benchmark
29 October 2009 - Added Evolution Sketch
16 June 2010 - Added sketch of Mark 149
round