skeet shooting..middle east style

[rocketray]

sorry I forget the click/paste thing---just google it

[Jess from VA]

https://youtu.be/lSf9ei7Q82M

I'd really like to have one of these, but I don't think I could afford the ammo.

[Oss]

It sounds harsh but it is the truth.

When a missile is fired the place it launched must immediately be vaporized whether it is a field, a school or a hospital Shame on the attacker for breaching all rules of war in hiding weapons in such place the deaths are on them.  Yet the Israeli's will not do that.  Probably one of the few things they do that I am against.  They actually drop leaflets saying people should leave before artillery is fired !

If one uses something to launch a missile one must be prepared to suffer for poor foresight

Sick of people crying over someone killed when they are the instrument of their own destruction.    And that goes for mothers who cry that their good kid didnt mean to break into a home and rob or rape and did not deserve to be killed by the home owner or their wife or child.

Utter obliteration of the entire launch area is the ONLY way the missiles will stop coming
as the residents will get sick of their "leaders" using them as shields  But for Gaza residents it is so much easier to blame anyone else but themselves for their poverty.  They have the clear ability to make their desert bloom as their neighbor but would rather cry and kill innocents while squandering countless millions, probably billions by now from Arafat going forward to the Hezbollah  and Hamas monsters

  

As to Iran shooting down the airplane, the Canadians and Ukranians (sp?) have the right to do as they see fit as that was an act of war.  

We should have taken care of business when Reagan was President. Look how many millions have died since then


Evil wins when good men and women do nothing.

[bscrive]

 

[..]

I've seen that before and asked what happens to all the munitions that miss the target?

Some poor buggers are getting unwanted presents.

[cookiedough]

that is some pretty rapid firing never seen it before, never knew weapons like that even existed. 

I wonder what the killing range is, how many miles away? 

[MarkT]

Those Raytheon automatic (missle) defense gun systems are used on many of our Navy ships.  The Phalanx CIWS system:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS

Per the above article,
"A land variant, known as the LPWS (Land Phalanx Weapon System), part of the C-RAM system, has recently been deployed in a short range missile defense role, to counter incoming rockets, artillery and mortar fire."

That would be the one in the video above, no doubt.  Surprised to read their claim of countering artillery.  Really, you're gonna shoot down incoming arty?  Good luck with that.  Reminds me of a pic I saw once, of 2 civil war rounds that collided in flight.


The guns are fundamentally the same as the M61 Vulcan gatling guns I worked on in Takhli, on F-111's, only radar and computer controlled.  20mm, 6 barrels, fires 100 exploding cannon rds/second.  Velocity 3450fps.  1543gr AP or HEI.  Bigger gatling type cannon, the GAU-8 on the A-10 tankbuster, 30mm.  I later worked for Raytheon as a contractor before I started important work - making Valkyrie parts.  The gun's killing range is given as 2.2 miles, while effective range depends on the radar and computer algorithms and what needs killing and is claimed to be 1-5 miles.  BTW a similar system replaced the tail gunner on B52's while I was deployed in SEA - eliminating the need for a tail gunner which they asked me to volunteer for.  Yeah right.  The tailgunner had the shortest life expectancy of all stations.  "But you'll get combat pay!"

If they come up with stealth missles these systems would be ineffective.  Until there's a replacement for radar.

[cookiedough]

thanks MarkT, you are a wealth of knowledgeable information.  2 miles or so is pretty impressive and am sure with precision accuracy..