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Five rockets were fired early Monday at the Kabul airport and intercepted -- Coach McGuirk 08/30/2021 08:16AM
Ok. Sea Ram is the rolling airframe missile mounted under the CIWS gun -- ColoVT82 08/30/2021 09:46AM Exactly. Different weapon systems engage targets at different distances -- EDGEMAN 08/30/2021 09:57AM Yep. Wall of lead/uranium. Effective, ...stuff can skip off the surface.. ** -- ColoVT82 08/30/2021 10:29AM Agreed. Unfortunately, there were civilian casualties ... -- Full-Set and Moonshine 08/30/2021 09:36AM While that is awesome, I assume we have something similar to Iron Dome the -- soldcokesatLane 08/30/2021 09:21AM Similar? Yep. And other stuff. Israel Arrow is a solid system too ** -- ColoVT82 08/30/2021 09:50AM USN ships have had CIWS since the early 80s -- EDGEMAN 08/30/2021 09:11AM Would guess we've worked with the Israelis for rocket interception -- EDGEMAN 08/30/2021 08:59AM Yep. Their need for missile/projectile defense is not hypothetical... ** -- ColoVT82 08/30/2021 10:30AM There's a laser-based variant on the way too ** -- MAHokie69 08/30/2021 08:28AM We're finally gonna use sharks? ** -- Burke Hokie 08/30/2021 09:40AM I assume the damage mechanism for a laser-based weapon is heat? -- BigJake20 08/30/2021 09:11AM Yes, the energy converts to heat on contact -- MAHokie69 08/30/2021 10:26AM A cool video about it here -- MR2 Hokies 08/30/2021 08:22AM Where do all those fired bullets land ?Not all hit the target. ** -- ronvpi 08/30/2021 08:57AM Bullets go downrange... ** -- ColoVT82 08/30/2021 10:31AM From watching the video it looks like they may explode after being airborne -- BTHokie 08/30/2021 09:31AM Mine end up in my neighbor’s pasture. 🤪 ** -- B777Fr8Dog 08/30/2021 09:07AM Very cool, indeed. I guess that is what I saw in "Under Seige". -- Coach McGuirk 08/30/2021 08:34AM
