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02-24-2011, 10:39 AM
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I remember years ago when the C-RAM stuff was "new" and some discovery channel thing reported on it. Still bad ***.
What bothers me, is that some 3rd world poor terrorist uses a cheap *** mortor and to counter it we have to spend 1000000% of that. The economics of that is not sustainable in a long term conflict without major consequences to the supplying economy.
What bothers me, is that some 3rd world poor terrorist uses a cheap *** mortor and to counter it we have to spend 1000000% of that. The economics of that is not sustainable in a long term conflict without major consequences to the supplying economy.
02-24-2011, 02:42 PM
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I remember years ago when the C-RAM stuff was "new" and some discovery channel thing reported on it. Still bad ***.
What bothers me, is that some 3rd world poor terrorist uses a cheap *** mortor and to counter it we have to spend 1000000% of that. The economics of that is not sustainable in a long term conflict without major consequences to the supplying economy.
What bothers me, is that some 3rd world poor terrorist uses a cheap *** mortor and to counter it we have to spend 1000000% of that. The economics of that is not sustainable in a long term conflict without major consequences to the supplying economy.
I can neither confirm nor deny that these have been used on pirates, literally as I haven't done it nor seen it. I can say that there were a few that almost crapped their pants at the sight of one up...
02-26-2011, 10:06 AM
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I remember years ago when the C-RAM stuff was "new" and some discovery channel thing reported on it. Still bad ***.
What bothers me, is that some 3rd world poor terrorist uses a cheap *** mortor and to counter it we have to spend 1000000% of that. The economics of that is not sustainable in a long term conflict without major consequences to the supplying economy.
What bothers me, is that some 3rd world poor terrorist uses a cheap *** mortor and to counter it we have to spend 1000000% of that. The economics of that is not sustainable in a long term conflict without major consequences to the supplying economy.
02-27-2011, 08:29 AM
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What's scary is that system is considered dated now... I believe its been replaced on most of our ships
My dad has been working (Lockheed) on THAAD for land based defense. The thing doesn't even have an explosive on board; it hits so goddamn hard that all of the energy just converts to heat.
There is a smaller but similar system on our Destroyers
My dad has been working (Lockheed) on THAAD for land based defense. The thing doesn't even have an explosive on board; it hits so goddamn hard that all of the energy just converts to heat.
There is a smaller but similar system on our Destroyers
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02-27-2011, 09:06 PM
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What's scary is that system is considered dated now... I believe its been replaced on most of our ships
My dad has been working (Lockheed) on THAAD for land based defense. The thing doesn't even have an explosive on board; it hits so goddamn hard that all of the energy just converts to heat.
There is a smaller but similar system on our Destroyers
My dad has been working (Lockheed) on THAAD for land based defense. The thing doesn't even have an explosive on board; it hits so goddamn hard that all of the energy just converts to heat.
There is a smaller but similar system on our Destroyers
Yeah, I saw that on Future Weapons. It uses kinetic energy to destroy incoming missiles or whatever, sort of the same idea just with a large missile (no explosives) instead of 50,000 20mm rounds covering the sky. The C-RAM is still cheaper than the missile option. The THAAD is our 3rd layer of defense against incoming missiles. Pretty bad *** that it can be that accurate and kill an ICBM in space without using explosives! (It literally knocks the missile out of the sky with kinetic energy)