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2009-05-22 Afghanistan

German troops in Afghanistan get High-Tech Response To Rocket Attacks

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Posted by 3dc 2009-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The US offered the Israelis C-RAM a long time ago, and they refused, because they were trying to build their own weapon that did the same thing. Meanwhile, the residents of Sderot had to sit defenseless, because even if the Israeli government got C-RAM, it intended to put them all on the northern borders, and still leave Sderot defenseless.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-05-22 09:43|| 2009-05-22 09:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Arrival date and deployment in 2012 barring cost overuns, corruption, and incompetence of the euroweenies.

Posted by bman 2009-05-22 10:11|| 2009-05-22 10:11|| Front Page Top

#3 While the 35mm gun at 1000 rounds/min throws out the same mass as a 20mm Gatling at 3000 rounds/min (Phalanx settings are for 3000 and 4500 rounds/min), the programmable airburst shell greatly increases the odds of a hit/shell using expensive ammunition. The Phalanx CRAM requires a direct hit using more of a less expensive ammunition. In Afghanistan, the lower ammo expenditure 35mm programmable ammo seems the way to go. For Israeli border protection, the longer range of the 35mm requires fewer (expensive) systems than Phalanx.

Posted by ed 2009-05-22 10:48|| 2009-05-22 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Made a mistake. The mass of the 35mm projectile (not the entire shell) is 750 grams or 7.5X the mass of the 20mm round, so each 355 gun is throwing the equivalent of the of the 200mm firing at 7500 rounds/min (or 3X slow or 1.66X fast). Pretty impressive.

Posted by ed 2009-05-22 11:01|| 2009-05-22 11:01|| Front Page Top

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