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- From: Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
- Subject: Helos vs Tanks
- Message-ID: <BzM9tr.M84@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Me? Organized?
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:01:03 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
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- > From Jussi-Pekka Korkala <korkkari@clinet.fi>
- >
- > Artillery shells? Are you serious? Where did you get the idea that
- > Phalanx can shoot down incoming shells? Have you got any idea what their
- > speed is, or does the radar have time to intercept them?
- >
- > Most shells get to their targets in couple of seconds!
- >
- > And also, i think AT-3, AT-5 etc, are bit too small targets for phalanx.
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- I think he is perfectly serious! The test set installed on the hulk
- USS Cunningham in 1975, and remotely controlled from shore (:-) -
- there's confidence for you!) in 1975 put hits onto Walleye glide
- bombs, and cruise missile sized targets took 40 or so hits on average
- (International Defence Review, No 9/1979). All this in the mid-70's
- remember.
-
- Take the British Seawolf anti-missile missile system - in trials one
- round actually hit an incoming 4.5" Mk 8 shell, and the same article
- has photos of a seawolf hitting a "petrel" - Mach 2.4 target a lot
- smaller than seawolf (Encyclopaedia of Rockets & Missiles).
-
- Nope - wouldn't surprise me a bit.
- --
- Mike Campbell, Christchurch, New Zealand
- mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz
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