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RPGs have just become a thing of the past...
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| Fir3start3r |
doh :eek:
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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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| Magnetonium |
Whoa, nice find :eyes: |
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| occrider |
| All that can fit on a humvee? |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | 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...:eyespop: |
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| pmoisse |
Ok, that's some in cool beans.
I'm kind of surprised they waited this long to mount a Phalanx gun on the back of a truck. |
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| 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.
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. |
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| Yoepus |
sounds like one very big fart to me.
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| Q5echo |
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. |
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| Dopey |
| quote: | 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.
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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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