When the new type of missiles are a few meters from your hull,
you're as good as dead, a CIWS would be useless against the
momentum that that thing would be packing.
The CIWS stats have been out for so long, you think some
designer isn't going to look for it's weaknesses? In recent
cases, they boosted the missile speed so high that even a head to
head kill won't divert it from it's main flight path by much. And
you really don't need an explosive warhead nowadays. Remember the
Shefield? It was sunk just by the fuel booster alone.
"Then has the US been wasting its time arming all its
ships with Phalanx guns?"
Not any more they don't. They are changing to medium-calibres
and RAMs.
"Air defence is just as hard as Strike."
And this is so much bullshit. In defence, you are working within
YOUR own air defence system. Strike, you are working in your
ENEMIES. So I say this statement is bullshit and just a nonsense
post to try winning a failing argument.