Very, Very Bad...

Aught Six · 03-23-2007, 11:13 PM

Navy Lacks Plan to Defend Against `Sizzler' Missile[/align][/align]***[/align][/align]Much worse than an overcooked steak...[/align]

Canuck_Buck · 03-26-2007, 06:42 AM

Ruh Roh...ok so is this where they are getting their backbone?

Russia has to stop selling Iran weapons.

kevin1 · 03-26-2007, 07:10 AM

Cruise missiles were what the Vulcan Phalanx System was designed for, and having seen what the ones on my carrier were capable of I doubt that the Sizzler would survive either. The Sizzler is just a somewhat faster cruise missile, and the Vulcan hates anything that flies and doesn't display an IFF signature. *YAWN*

Aught Six · 03-26-2007, 07:25 PM

Seems to me we'd have a decent chance of stopping them before the final approach, but still, it disturbs me that so many people haven't taken a serious, in-depth look at this system. We've always had the best military avionics gear,but now that the developing world is starting to catch up, we need to pay attention.

kevin1 · 03-27-2007, 06:17 AM

Vulcan Phalanx was originally designed to detect cruise missiles several miles away from the ship, determine the threat level, aim, and then fire on the target at a cyclic rate of 4,000 RPM. It continues tracking the target, tracks it's own bullets in flight, adjusting their aimpoint as needed, and then stops when the threat is no longer visible. Many cruise missiles, the French Exocet notably, are designed to skim the wave tops and then suddenly pop up in the air and then descend at supersonic speed, VP anticipates this and a wide array of other moves and compensates automatically. You can run from VP, but you can't hide, not for long anyway. In testing the VP system was incredibly accurate and killed it's target over 98% of the time. I saw one of ours fire on a drone they shot at us from Hawaii to see if we were awake, they couldn't even find pieces of it once the shooting stopped, just an oil slick from it's jet engine. It had obliterated the drone roughly 2 miles from the ship, I sleep pretty well at night knowing that. I agree that we always need to stay a step ahead, but what we have right now is probably the best in the world.