To: Loud Mime
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does a Phalanx have optical sights? I suspect the only shooten' irons on board that can be optically aimed are a couple of rifles and the cook's paintball gun...
22 posted on
03/18/2006 11:56:30 AM PST by
jonascord
("As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!")
To: jonascord
..get in close enough beforehand, and an RPG or 6 could do a world of hurt on this glass jaw queen...
..navy only functions in "stand-off" mode; get inside this prize fighter, and you can take him down...
seen that before (USS Cole)
76 posted on
03/18/2006 3:11:47 PM PST by
telstar1
(...peace is possible ONLY through precisely applied firepower...)
To: jonascord
I've read that the Phalanx has a manual over-ride, but how that is used I have no idea how.....
anybody know anything about the Phalanx?
80 posted on
03/18/2006 3:35:59 PM PST by
Loud Mime
("Countdown" - A documentary about Keith Olbermann's dwindling IQ)
To: jonascord
"I suspect the only shooten' irons on board that can be optically aimed are a couple of rifles and the cook's paintball gun..."
Uh... no. Jimmy and Bill are out of office. You are right on the rifles but there are 50 calibers on many of our ships now.
However... I read somewhere the newer DDG's were designed without the Phalanx systems. The navy web sites don't list them either. I understand though that many are going to be retrofitted with them or an upgraded "replacement".
Seems like the designers all have that "missile" think that led to the original Phantoms without cannons. Stupid.
104 posted on
03/18/2006 10:15:08 PM PST by
JSteff
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