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- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -5/+127My toast? What about my toast?
- madrid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+121It's called the Phalanx CIWS (Close-in Weapons System)
http://www.raytheon.com/products/phalanx/
Look for the product data sheet link on that page for geek info. All info is Public Released.
There's also a variant called the SeaRAM, it's a standard RAM (Rolling Airframe Missile) launcher hooked up to that big tracking dome thing in the video (white "head" looking thing) used to take down incoming aircraft, boats, etc. It also works against missiles.
We make a bunch of other scary-ass weapons too. Check out the other products (JSOW, Maverick, Tomahawk, Javelin, TOW [Tow is what they used to take out Saddam's son], Sidewinder, AMRAAM, HARM, Paveway [If you've ever seen the movie Clear and Present Danger, there's a scene where a Seal is lasing a target in South America and a plane drops a thing called an LGB, Laser Guided Bomb...that LGB is a paveway], Stinger, etc.)
Disclosure: I work for Raytheon - mc1123, on 10/12/2007, -4/+86I know it sounds like a giant wet fart.
- IHaveIssues, on 10/12/2007, -7/+85Holy *****, I'm no grammar nazi but just in one sentence....
Once it has you in it's [its] sites [sights], your [you're] toast! - RoboRay, on 10/12/2007, -3/+79Affectionately referred to by us sailors as "R2-D2 with a hard-on."
- spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+49They use them on big ships for shooting down missiles and bombs and suchlike :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46Keeping kids off your lawn will never be the same.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Screw this, I want LASERS!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39"anti-cruise missle"
theother1 so you saying it is against scientology
/joke - Cyberdactyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31
Basically a 800 foot long lead whip. - Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33PULL!!!!
- afex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29dude, of course it uses an atmospheric doppler. jesus, this is 2006! you can barely buy a minifridge without an atmospheric doppler, let alone a super gun...
- YourTechSupport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Phalanx is badass. But I really think the white dome thing needs a smiley face or gaping maw painted on it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28I wish I knew more about it.
good Dig! - thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24look up Phalanx guns
- airship, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28Translation:
"Once it has you in it [exists][multiple locations], toast [which you own]."
Your rite. Its pourly ritten. - noonzie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Ok... I think I found info on this weapon. Its called the MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS)
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/mk-15.htm
Not sure if it is exactly the same, but it sure looks like it. - PFS1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
- kontact, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20They have this in battlefield 2, it's on one of the american aircraft carriers. It's pretty fun to use.
- Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Yeah, IIRC, the problem is the barrels start to warp from the heat if you run them for too long.
The good news is there really is no point in running them for longer than that. If you haven't shot down the incoming missile within the second or so after you see it, never mind. - StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16"Once it has you in it's sites, your toast!"
I must admit: I'm not generally a grammar Nazi, but three mistakes in a space of four words is VERY impressive. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17pft, it's not even a gun made out of guns shooting more guns
- Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13That's our proud public education system at its finest.
But, the good news is that the author probably has very high self esteem. - Mipmap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+124,500 rounds per minute = 75 rounds per second
This would be my preferred method of death by firing squad. - Doghound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@duxxyuk
You wouldn't have to worry about one of these being close to you. They are specifically designed to protect US & Allied fleets from anti-ship cruise missiles and, in some cases, aircraft at a short range. They are often see at 2-4 positions on aircraft carriers since they are the most defensless. - duxxyuk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I suggest you go and see a doctor if you fart like that ;-)
- max15characters, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Gun apparently destroys grammar too.
- mtwoar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Highly effective in shooting mortars out of the air before they impact.
- Obelisk79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10CIWS, although previously plagued with reliability issues in its earlier years, has reached a pretty high level of reliability. If it is coupled with quality operators/technicians is a very effective system.
It has a built in radar which will check each new target it detects against a set of variables regarding range, speed and angle of approach. If the target meets this criteria as set by those variables it will engage and neutralize the target.
Coupled with the AEGIS weapon system it can also be operated off of the other primary 3d air search radar SPY-1D and integrates well with these systems to create a multi-tiered self defense system onboard US Navy vessels.
Also out there is the RAM Missile Launcher, which I believe was built off the concepts of the CIWS system, however instead of using a gattling gun it uses small rapidly fired rockets.
Hope you found all that informative. As I work closely with these systems as a FireControlman in the Navy
Also in the Navy we call CIWS by many names:
"See-Whiz"
"Cheese-Whiz"
"R2-D2 With a Hard-on" - madrid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@mtwoar
Kiowas fire, among other armaments, Stinger missiles which incidentally are also a Raytheon Product. They might have been used on the strike on the compound as preparatory fire, but from some reports including this one from the DOD (http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2003/n07232003_200307232.html), "At 1 p.m., forces on the ground fired 10 tube-launched optically tracked wire- guided missiles, commonly called TOWs, into the house. "We believe that it is likely that the TOW missile attack was what wound up killing three of the adults," Sanchez said."
Just my FYI as to where we got the background. For all I know, since I wasn't there, someone could've taken him out with garrote wire and a bic pen. My thanks, btw for your service. I'm glad to hear you are alive and well enough to post to digg. I have a friend over there now. - BadassCheese, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20I refuse to support this anti-semetic gun
- jbsnyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I like the wikipedia trivia on that:
"Because of the inefficiency and bulkiness of the original CIWS units, the acronym received the derisive backronym of "Christ! It Won't Shoot!" (for a milder version, the word "Christ" may be substituted by "Captain" or "Chief")" - LeberMac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Paired with the AEGIS system, yeah, this CIWS is what was designed originally to counter the Soviet's strategy of taking out US Carriers. Essentially, they'd send in swarms of Backfires loaded up with long-range cruise missiles to sink the carriers. Hard to defend against 50 incoming cruise misiles, so, the geniuses came up with this weapon, which is pretty awesome, even 30 years later.
- chamblah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That is correct
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIWS - Pootle4rthur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I had a brief chance to play with the joystick control (though not the fire button) of one mounted on a Royal Navy frigate when I was a cadet about 15 years ago.
They shoot the biggest thing in their view finder, which after a plane, is normally the chute, and after the shoot is the ejected pilot in their seat, which seems a little mean to the ejected pilot who is no longer any kind of a threat and should really be taken as a POW but I guess that's modern warfare.
I think the Royal Navy system was nick named "Goalkeeper" as it never let anything through - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The gun traces its own bullets and corrects the angle.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Who told you there was such a thing as a "semete"?
They're both "semites" which is pretty f'in ironic considering they hate each other...
A "semite" is someone who speaks a semitic language. This covers jewish, arabic, and even some etheopian languages... there's no such thing as an "arab" unless you're talking about an arabic person - any person of any geneology who lives in Saudi Arabia. Theres no such thing as a "jew" because the very definitions of "jew" as laid out by halahka mean that *everyone* is a jew...
Here's a comic about it:
http://www.richgentlemenhide.com/comic/anti-semantism/
In actual fact they are all simply fellow human beings and the fact that noone even understands the predjudices they embrace or reject really serves to illustrate the absurdity of racial identity... - djjuice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7yeah a CIWS, all large navy ships have these, we call them "R2-D2" for the look of it, its really a last defense. First used to stop kamakazies, but a good shot for destroying incomming missles, just a great big gatling gun. They are horribly loud!
- SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Mine's coming in the mail this week. I'll post a full review when it gets here.
- DatoeDakari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6WOW
(btw the sound of the gun in the night shot, sounds strangely similar to the ships in War of the Worlds) - hipnotic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6wtf are you talking about? Are you on crack? Lasers can't be used the way you are saying. Look up "blooming"
- TheOther1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@ Mohonri
eBay. - mtwoar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@madrid
Thanks for the clarification. We didn't have TV at the time so it was more or less word-of-mouth as to how they were killed. Tell your friend to keep his head down and come home safe. - shaim2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://navysite.de/weapons/phalanx.htm
The cool thing about it is that it tracks both the target and its own bullets with the radar, correcting all the time, until they meet. - mtwoar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@madrid
I was in Baghdad the night they killed Saddam's sons. I was under the impression it was a Kiowa that ended up firing the rocket pods, not a TOW. Although my team did end up digging up a few TOW missiles buried behind a mosque in the Hy Al-Amil district of Baghdad. They were stored with a lot of RPG's in wooden crates. Anyway... I wasn't aware we shot TOW missiles into that compound. Not trying to discredit your statement in any way, just curious. - twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The Phalanx has been on board US navy vessels, since the mid-1970's. Its main purpose is to shoot down missles and aircraft that are attempting to deliver torpedoes. It is a variant of the gun the USAF used on the C130 Hercules (Puff the Magic Dragon) during the Viet Nam War. The difference is that this is a radar-aimed weapon and Puff was not.
The C130 would do a tight turn around a target and fire this at the ground! It would put a bullet in at about every 1/2". Or, for more "bang," they used a specially mounted 155mm howitzer. - nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Great technology, even though it was rolled out 15 years ago....who knows what awesome stuff they'll cook up next.
Interesting fact about Phalanx CIWS - it fires up to 4500 SPM - That's 75 rounds per second for those reaching for the calculator. - gr8whitesavage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5haha wow
What did you say about my toast?! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7This is fearsome, but Metal Storm is the project I don't want to be in front of. Some of the Metal Storm weapons fire 45,000 rounds per minute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_storm
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1281426.html - antron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Get Some! Get Some!
Get Some! Yeah, yeah, yeah! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime! -
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