Comments on: Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System

By: home garden decoration

home garden decoration — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:19:34 +0000

it’s certainly an example of our continuing efforts to evolve our capabilities to meet the challenges we face.

By: Manuel De Leon

Manuel De Leon — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:04:06 +0000

Its easy so give comments when you are not the one out there getting a mortar in your butt.
SGT. De Leon, Manuel

By: Gerry

Gerry — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:12:41 +0000

The C-RAM uses a special .50 cal fragmentation round that’s fused to explode at a specific altitude (sorry I don’t recall the acronym at the moment). Personnel inside the wire are much more likely to feel and hear the rain of shrapnel than civilians outside. Some dropped to the ground near me and it reminded me of very large raindrops.
To see it an hear it is a wonder. Visually a stream of rounds (some tracer) head upward, followed by detonation at the rounds at the fused altitude. It was like July 4th fireworks. Five seconds of firing, the red stream of rounds, followed by “pop pop pop .…. pop pop .… pop pop” up in the sky.
Describing the sound is difficult, it’s like nothing you’ve ever heard before. There’s a wind-up and wind-down sound, and in between a high speed firing period of perhaps 5 seconds.Like I said its hard to describe, but imagine a huge dental drill, or some enormous piece of landscaping machinery like a big chainsaw (minus the two-cycle engine). Better yet, combine those two sounds together.
My hooch was near one of the C-RAM units, and my office near another, and during testing they would light ‘em up with no warning at all and I’d jump halfway from my chair or the sack. They were extremely loud, even from 100 or 200 yards away.

By: Bobbymike

Bobbymike — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:25:44 +0000

Now what the Army should do is attach a counter-sniper system to the gun and use in what I like to call the “street sweeper” configuration for counter-insurgency operations.

By: Byron Skinner

Byron Skinner — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:34:01 +0000

Good Morning Folks,
Althought the Phalanx is a proven system with the Navy, but is now being replaced it seems to me that this is like going after a fly with a hammer. The possability of collateral civilian causalities and property damage seem to be very high with stray 20mm flying around, this just seems to be the wrong solution to the problem of random mortar fire into American bases.
How about trying keepping Iraqi nationals off bases so they can’t regester targets, reduce the size of these bases like getting rid of Burger Kings etc. to provide smaller and fewer targets and more and more agressive foot patrols outside of these FOB’s.
Another solution might be to let Iran know that we don’t welcome the importation of there home made/grown K-16 or their K-14 60mm or there K-18 120mm mortars, 81mm Mortars into Iraq.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner