I’ve seen lots of videos of Phalanx in action. “Ruin your day” — LOL. Understatement of the day.
Maybe this practice was to give the sailors some old-fashioned shoot-’em-up practice just in case Phalanx is broken.
I didn’t know that Phalanx radar also tracks the bullet, not just the target. That’s amazing. Makes perfect sense.
Yes, the development of this system was completed just prior to my leaving the service in 1981. It is a wonderful system, nearly impossible to get through.