Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
RPGs have just become a thing of the past...
doh
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This video shows a Land Based Phalanx Weapons System, also known as a C-RAM or Counter Rocket/Artillery Mortar System. The LBWS fires a zillion rounds at an unbelievable rate of speed at an incoming projectile, artillery shell or cruise missile and destroys it mid-air. It was first developed for the US Navy to protect ships from cruise missile attacks. It has been refined a bit since then. In this case, it is taking out small mortar shells in Balad, Iraq.
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Feb-08-2007 02:15
jonSun
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Chicago CTA #77
Thats awesome
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Feb-08-2007 02:18
Magnetonium
Dubstep = Douchestep
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Port Burwell, Ontario, Canada
Whoa, nice find
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Feb-08-2007 02:20
occrider
Traveladdict
Registered: Oct 2000
Location: New York
All that can fit on a humvee?
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Feb-08-2007 02:47
Omega_M
Nostalgia
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Ether
ZOMG !!
Feb-11-2007 00:07
Fir3start3r
Armin Acolyte
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
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Originally posted by occrider
All that can fit on a humvee?
Flatbed truck actually and that's most likely for the all the ammo it has to carry...
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Feb-11-2007 00:10
pmoisse
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Amsterdam, NL (formerly Montreal QC)
Ok, that's some fuckin cool beans.
I'm kind of surprised they waited this long to mount a Phalanx gun on the back of a truck.
Feb-11-2007 00:24
Q5echo
asymetrical scepticism
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Dallas
those things are ridiculously wicked but those 30mm bullets gotta fall somewhere. i don't know how well that would go over anywhere other than a big empty ocean.
there was an incident at Pearl Harbor a few years back when one of the destroyers stationed there was performing some routine maintenance on their Phalanx (CWIS they call it) while in port. i'm not sure on the details but they accidently shot off 3 depleted uranium rounds off into an Aeia Heights neighborhood 7 miles away. they didn't hit anything fortunately and it took the Navy a week to find the rounds. needless to say the Navy doesn't let boats perform that maintenance in port anymore.
Feb-11-2007 02:27
Yoepus
Neo-condimist
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Ketchup fields, Texas
sounds like one very big fart to me.
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i just read that thing is firing "self-destruct" rounds!
thats the crackling thunder-like sound you hear after the end of the firing cycle.
too cool.
Feb-12-2007 04:50
Dopey
Palestinian Pornstar
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Ramallah
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Originally posted by Q5echo
those things are ridiculously wicked but those 30mm bullets gotta fall somewhere. i don't know how well that would go over anywhere other than a big empty ocean.
exactly, "militants" will just stand in front of 100 schoolchildren while firing their RPGs. but I guess it will be easier to spot/avoid 100 schoolchildren than one guy on a rooftop.
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Feb-12-2007 07:16
XaNaX
I <3 global warming
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: 1000 Miles too far North
RPGs have just become a thing of the past...
