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2023-09-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Wild moment US Navy phalanx anti-aircraft gun trains its sights on passenger 737 as sailors laugh and tell the autonomous gun 'no no no'

The New Navy.

[MAIL] Footage shows the anti-aircraft system aiming its Gatling gun at the plane flying through the sky. It's unclear where exactly the incident took place.
If true, no laughing matter. No, not at all.
A sailor is heard shouting: 'No, no, no,' while chuckling as the weapon continues to track it.

It eventually powers down and loses interest in the aircraft and another relieved crew member is heard saying: 'Jesus!'

The pair then laugh and the first sailor continues to say: 'No, oh man.'

The MK 15 Phalanx has a tracking antenna, which is automatically aimed toward what it perceives to be a threat along with its powerful cannon.

It sends the information to its computer system until a probable hit is determined, which is when the electrically driven motors move the gun into the proper position and keep tracking the object.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 And Phalanx cannot possibly reach the altitudes that a 737 flies it. It is a close-in weapon system.

Duh.

Posted by Harcourt Tholuse6841 2023-09-27 04:25|| 2023-09-27 04:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Suggesting the Phalanx was the only 'alerted' defensive fire system is naive.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-27 05:04|| 2023-09-27 05:04|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Setting aside questions of authenticity and real life safety measures, the video depicts plane far below cruising altitude. You can have my seat on the "in anger" reenactment.

Posted by Elmique Pheresh4813 2023-09-27 05:10|| 2023-09-27 05:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Now ask.
What if it was equipped with A.I. controlled?

BTW:
Effective firing range:1,625 yd (max. effective range) 135 yds under a mile.

With a maximum firing range:6,000 yd about 3.4 miles
But we are talking civil NON-armored Jet, that bird strikes have brought down.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-09-27 06:08|| 2023-09-27 06:08|| Front Page Top

#5 After 27 years, TWA Flight 800 is still fresh in the memory of many.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-27 06:12|| 2023-09-27 06:12|| Front Page Top

#6 TWA Flight 800

A Brief History Of Civilian Planes That Have Been Shot Down

Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-27 07:07|| 2023-09-27 07:07|| Front Page Top

#7 If the system is on, it's supposed to track targets. There's multiple "enable fire" switches that have to be turned on before it goes bang.
The Navy (and everybody else that has anti-air weapons) routinely track civilian targets, to make sure that the equipment works. For that matter, the subs do it too, just nobody gets to see it.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-09-27 09:07|| 2023-09-27 09:07|| Front Page Top

#8 The reaction of the sailors watching the CIWS seems to indicate what they were seeing was not the norm.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-27 09:10|| 2023-09-27 09:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh look, crazy conspiracy theories. What a surprise.

Posted by Otto Gurly-Brown9938 2023-09-27 09:59|| 2023-09-27 09:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Why did the word "SkyNet" suddenly pop into my brain?

Posted by Warthog 2023-09-27 11:14|| 2023-09-27 11:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Skynet testing its weapons.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-09-27 12:46|| 2023-09-27 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 And Phalanx cannot possibly reach the altitudes that a 737 flies it. It is a close-in weapon system.

They do take off and land at sea level airports, and there was no zoom used on that camera.

If they are noob sailors it would be out of the norm. I wouldn't underestimate that age group's inability to understand common things, especially if they think they are on the verge of tiktok famous.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-09-27 16:22|| 2023-09-27 16:22|| Front Page Top

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