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- From: Gary Coffman <emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu>
- Subject: Re: land based Phalanx
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- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:33:23 GMT
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- From Gary Coffman <emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu>
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- In article <Bzq302.4xz@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> patterso@ADS.COM (Tim J. Patterson) writes:
- [Don Palmrose wrote]
- >>Why not take the US Navy's Phalanx CIWS and mount it on top of a Bradley if
- >
- >Several people have proposed this idea in one variant or another. I
- >would guess though that the tracking radar used to track the shells
- >might have substantial problems if used in many land environments.
- >The ocean is one of the cleanest possible radar environments even in
- >heavy seas. When the clutter is compared to that found in many types
- >of terrain, I would not be supprised to see the performance degrade to
- >be unacceptable.
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- The usual way of dealing with clutter is to use doppler discrimination.
- Anything that isn't moving fast isn't a target and is suppressed. Since
- the Phalanx is designed to deal with wave skimming missiles where the
- clutter environment is quite bad, I would assume it uses this technique.
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- Gary
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