Author Topic: Is this true? (Read 304 times)

Beltfed5 · « **on:** August 01, 2007, 12:44:22 AM »

I saw some videos on u-tube where they had a 20mm phalanx blowing incoming mortar rounds out of the sky... Can we (U.S.) actually do that now??

tedrbr · « **Reply #1 on:** August 01, 2007, 12:50:38 AM »

Yep. Member of these forums actually works to support them somewhere near BIAP in Iraq, but I can't/won't say more about that or him.

Brits been doing it too.
Jane's article

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 01, 2007, 01:01:30 AM »

youtube video
thats powerful gun

storch · « **Reply #3 on:** August 01, 2007, 06:08:14 AM »

yup it's true. I served aboard the USS Bigelow (DD942) where the CIWS underwent field testing back in 1978. the gun's radar system would track and hit the 1" tow cable severing it from the target drone.

Phaser11 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 01, 2007, 06:36:53 AM »

Not only that,
Northrop Grumman has a laser that shot down 3 mortar rounds in flight. All rounds were fired in the time it takes a normal mortar crew to fire them. All rounds were in the air when the laser killed them.
Saw the video at a conference 2 years ago when I was working for them. Way cool.

http://www.defense-update.com/directory/THEL.htm

kamilyun · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2007, 09:34:26 PM »

Ah, that's cool. Using a system they were sort of minimizing on US warships.

IIRC, they were moving to a small missle defense system. I'll look it up in a bit, but I think the british used it, too. A modular system that could be installed as stand alone system, or in VLS like on AEGIS ships.

Author Topic: Is this true? (Read 304 times)

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