To: ruptured duck
Has anyone else heard of this system and is it really as effective as this article purports?
2 posted on
09/05/2006 6:54:51 PM PDT by
ruptured duck
(He shoots....and boom goes the dynamite!)
To: ruptured duck
It sounds like a great way to tear up dismounted infantry around the armored vehicle.
6 posted on
09/05/2006 6:57:25 PM PDT by
MediaMole
(9/11 - We have already forgotten.)
To: ruptured duck
...says Miller’s mother, Kathy “Little Denny never knew what hit him.” Was he 6 years old when she signed him up?
7 posted on
09/05/2006 6:58:36 PM PDT by
pfflier
To: ruptured duck
I would think that a shotgun might be usefull in exploding the RPG before it hits.
8 posted on
09/05/2006 6:59:10 PM PDT by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire.)
To: ruptured duck
I bet it struggles with false positives in an urban environment. Firing on auto exhausts might be looked down upon.
23 posted on
09/05/2006 7:13:45 PM PDT by
elfman2
(An army of amateurs doing the media's job.)
To: ruptured duck
The best countermeasure against RPGs is the gunners in a patrol watching their sector and pouring automatic weapons fire at the jihadi preparing to fire the RPG.
33 posted on
09/05/2006 7:20:40 PM PDT by
91B
(God made man, Sam Colt made men equal)
To: ruptured duck
How Bout' The GRUNTS Be Allowed To Do Their Job??
Kill The S-O-B With The RPG-AT Weapon!
This Is More "Safe-War" Krappola.
42 posted on
09/05/2006 7:27:33 PM PDT by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: ruptured duck
To: ruptured duck
The primary problem with this system and the way it works is that it poses an enormous threat to foot troops in the vicinity. The IDF operates in a very different way than the U.S., with tanks working independantly, sometimes alone, and very far off from their men with boots on the ground. We often combine the two.
Phrased differently, this system would create far too many "friendly fire" incidents.
62 posted on
09/05/2006 8:10:49 PM PDT by
Joe Brower
(The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
To: ruptured duck
Uh, if this system is so great, why isn't Israel using it? Preponderance of IDF deaths in Lebanon were due to anti-tank missiles.
To: ruptured duck
On the "FutureWeapons" show on The Discovery Channel, there was a short
bit on the defensive capabilities of the NLOS cannon platform.
IIRC, it was for identifying and neutralizing things like infantry threats,
including missle/RPG.
Sorry I can't give more definitive description, but it was a blip after
talking about all the other admirable features of the system:
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=7214
97 posted on
09/06/2006 11:12:05 AM PDT by
VOA
To: ruptured duck
Here is some more definative information on this system: http://www.murdoconline.net/ .
Scroll down about 1 page to: "Trophy Active Protection System"
101 posted on
09/06/2006 6:20:12 PM PDT by
Balding_Eagle
(God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who are going senile.)
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