To: Duke C.
Install another dozen CIWS phalanx guns per ship. Put up a wall of lead. Kinetics works both ways.
12 posted on
03/23/2023 11:27:39 AM PDT by
rednesss
(fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power )
To: rednesss
There’s nowhere to put more than the installations we already have on the destroyers we’ve got. In fact, we built about a decade or so of destroyers with the forward CIWS mount deleted. Because we’re idiots.
22 posted on
03/23/2023 11:35:08 AM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: rednesss
I just read an article that claimed that hypersonic missiles are so hard to shoot down because they fly 5 feet above the water.
47 posted on
03/23/2023 11:55:17 AM PDT by
Rdct29
(Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
To: rednesss
Also worth noting - a Phalanx CIWS installation has at most about 20-30 seconds worth of fire before it runs dry, at which point it is out of action for 15-30 minutes while sailors with carts and wrenches reload it. It cannot fire while being reloaded either.
57 posted on
03/23/2023 12:10:05 PM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: rednesss
They don’t shoot lead...
67 posted on
03/23/2023 12:21:50 PM PDT by
NavyShoe
To: rednesss
So, you turn the missile into a huge cloud of buckshot.
Going to suck being in the path of that.
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