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- From: Gary Coffman <emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu>
- Subject: Re: Helos vs. tanks (Was Re: info wanted : tank tactics used in
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:28:17 GMT
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- From Gary Coffman <emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu>
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- In article <Bzs8ux.LG6@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> dave@Cigna.COM (Dave Good) writes:
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- >Probably the main reason they would never do this is that anybody standing
- >around outside when the Phalanx main radar was active would get cooked.
- >This might not be too bad if the poor soul were an enemy ;-), but in the
- >chaos of war, there would almost certainly be a lot of friendly infantry
- >wandering into the wrong areas...
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- This brings up an interesting point, what's the electrical power requirement
- of the Phalanx? If it's excessive, mounting on a vehicle is right out because
- of the huge generators that would be required. I imagine that the inverse
- square law would guarantee that troops wouldn't need to fear being cooked
- if they were more than a few yards away. The peak pulse power of these
- radars is immense, but the average power, that's what cooks you, is really
- quite modest. And that falls off rapidly with distance.
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- Gary
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