C-RAM at work
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Cybrludite
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C-RAM at work
Here's a video of the land-based version of the Navy's 20mm Vulcan CIWS shooting down a mortar shell.
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Mud_Dog
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Re: C-RAM at work
Niiiiice.
Now all that's missing is getting an accurate automatic counter-mortar/rocket battery to finish the job. Balad got shelled almost every other day I was there, so they definately need it.
Now all that's missing is getting an accurate automatic counter-mortar/rocket battery to finish the job. Balad got shelled almost every other day I was there, so they definately need it.
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clyde621
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Re: C-RAM at work
Awsome: Sounded like a muted buzz saw going off.
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308Mike
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Re: C-RAM at work
One of the comments:
People that *guess* shouldn't post as if they *Know* The complete C-RAM system networks a ground-based version of Phalanx together with the Army's Lightweight Counter Mortar Radar (LCMR) and Q-36 Target Acquisition Radar (AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder Radar). Unlike the naval version, C-RAM does not fire solid tungsten penetrators. Instead, self-destructing explosive bullets are used, in order to reduce the risk of civilian and friendly casualties.
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I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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HTRN
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Re: C-RAM at work
HTRN, I would tell you that you are an evil fucker, but you probably get that a lot ~ Netpackrat
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g-man
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Re: C-RAM at work
It's gotten better. Lots better. All I can say.Mud_Dog wrote:Niiiiice.
Now all that's missing is getting an accurate automatic counter-mortar/rocket battery to finish the job. Balad got shelled almost every other day I was there, so they definately need it.
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
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Bob K
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Re: C-RAM at work
I'm just really glad it's ours.
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“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.” Sigmund Freud
"Oderint dum metuant." ("Let them hate, so long as they fear.") Accius