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To: schurmann

Actually, the US Army disagrees with the usefulness of the CIWS system on land. Let me introduce you to the Centurion C-RAM system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS#Centurion_C-RAM


13 posted on 05/08/2018 9:35:38 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

“Actually, the US Army disagrees with the usefulness of the CIWS system on land. Let me introduce you to the Centurion C-RAM system.”

My information is dated, then. Occupational hazard in this line of work.

Nice to know Raytheon has been up to the rework job. Though I do not imagine we’ll be getting any details on field performance; that stuff is usually held closely. There are certain technical limitations that had to be overcome. Most pleasing to see the modified version has been able to negate incoming mortar rounds.

CWIS is not a precise duplicate of either CIS’s Tunguska nor PRC’s LD-2000, so a direct comparison isn’t possible on the merits.


14 posted on 05/09/2018 11:50:21 AM PDT by schurmann
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