• Close-up of 20mm Gatling Gun Shooting Down a Missile
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Here are two views of my Phalanx CIWS (Close-in Weapon System) shooting down a drone missile while I was in the Navy. This was a 470 round burst that shredded the missile to pieces of scrap metal! [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmUfiPRrbMw[/url] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l0Dh6qJ3RE[/url]
I love how sudden its movements are. :v:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmUfiPRrbMw[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l0Dh6qJ3RE[/media] patched up your links for you
Fuck me that's terrifying.
[QUOTE=Scot;38167760]Fuck me that's terrifying.[/QUOTE] I have heard stories from people who were on the smoke deck when they weren't supposed to be when my gun was doing test fires, they said they almost shit themselves. The concussion from the rounds going off shakes your uniform, it's pretty amazing
That's so sick! Is the part on the top radar or something?
A better use would be to drop these in enemy territory and have they spin around in 360 degrees firing millions of bullets in every direction. Nobody would be safe.
This thread gave me strange sense of déjá vu
[QUOTE=Lick;38167835]That's so sick! Is the part on the top radar or something?[/QUOTE] Yeah, the tracking radar is stored in the dome on top.
[QUOTE=Lick;38167835]That's so sick! Is the part on the top radar or something?[/QUOTE] The white dome hides the search RADAR, the white part below it has the track antenna and a bunch of other electronic components inside.
[QUOTE=GREN EYGS N HAM;38167497]I love how sudden its movements are. :v:[/QUOTE] definitely wouldn't want to get that thing angry...
Reminds me of battlefield 2 :)
BRRRRRRRRRRRRR
[QUOTE=Olas;38167838]A better use would be to drop these in enemy territory and have they spin around in 360 degrees firing millions of bullets in every direction. Nobody would be safe.[/QUOTE] that is a remarkably idiotic idea
What's wrong with anti missile missiles?
[QUOTE=Kalibos;38168830]that is a remarkably idiotic idea[/QUOTE] Is it though? [sp]I'm sorry if you really thought I was serious[/sp]
[QUOTE=BAZ;38169042]What's wrong with anti missile missiles?[/QUOTE] This is for when the anti-missile-missiles fail to do their job. CIWS is the last resort.
[QUOTE=BAZ;38169042]What's wrong with anti missile missiles?[/QUOTE] Because then we'll have anti-anti-missile missiles. And then there'll be anti-anti-anti-missile missiles.
[QUOTE=michaeldim;38170267]This is for when the anti-missile-missiles fail to do their job. CIWS is the last resort.[/QUOTE] YUP! We had RAM launchers, chaff, and then CIWS. They fired off a RAM missile after I left, so I never got to see it live, I guess they actually work though.
[QUOTE=Ridge;38172149]Because then we'll have anti-anti-missile missiles. And then there'll be anti-anti-anti-missile missiles.[/QUOTE] Which will lead to the production of anti-anti-anti-anti-[I]anti[/I]-missile missiles, God forbid.
Why do you keep referring it to as "my gun" i doubt you own that piece.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;38175840]Why do you keep referring it to as "my gun" i doubt you own that piece.[/QUOTE] He was probably the operator.
It's a bit disturbing that things like this could be used in extreme measures by any first world country; imagine if some hypothetical situation happened where there was so much dissent that weapons like this cause mass carnage. I mean any weapon can; but it's pretty practical to have something as accurate and as scary as that to, say, block off a road or something. Hey; with the golden dawn in greece; who knows...
Have any of you ever considered mounting a chair to this thing and seeing who can hold on the longest
[QUOTE=kaze4159;38176371]Have any of you ever considered mounting a chair to this thing and seeing who can hold on the longest[/QUOTE] That would be the CIWS rodeo.... it's been thought of, but I still haven't seen anybody dumb enough to try it [editline]25th October 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;38175840]Why do you keep referring it to as "my gun" i doubt you own that piece.[/QUOTE] Dude I wish I owned one... I was the supervisor and operator of these systems on "my ship", so I called them "my" guns. I didn't own the ship either by the way...
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;38175840]Why do you keep referring it to as "my gun" i doubt you own that piece.[/QUOTE] As a taxpayer, I DO have partial ownership of it. Have some Phalanx death ray action... [video=youtube;ILcVt9p7cug]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILcVt9p7cug[/video]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/tpCv0.png[/IMG] I could've sworn there was already a thread full of CIWS though.
[QUOTE=Useful Dave;38181818]I could've sworn there was already a thread full of CIWS though.[/QUOTE] I had this serious bout of deja-vu too, but then I found the thread [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1219594[/url] but basically everything posted in there has been posted here now too.
Here's a similar weapon system, the C-RAM, which is basically the Phalanx but for land [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uQ8UjjLeZE&feature=related[/media] Shit works
wow, that's sick!
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