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- From: malloy@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy)
- Subject: Re: Machine Guns in BTECH
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
- Date: 20 Dec 92 21:54:48 PST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.215448.13263@crash>
- References: <1992Dec17.023256.12608@wam.umd.edu> <RATINOX.92Dec16230627@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu> <1h2oplEINN77k@uni-erlangen.de>
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- In article <1h2oplEINN77k@uni-erlangen.de> kabreuer@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Klaus Breuer) writes:
- >>Vulcan cannon is a 20mm gun and is common to fighter aircraft and
- >>anti-missile systems (can you say Ageis?). The closest Battletech
- >No, but I can _spell_ Aegis :)
-
- Not to mention that the Aegis system has absolutely _no_ cannon systems of
- any kind in it; the Aegis system is an interconnected radar/missile/battle
- management system, currently consisting of (for the Ticonderoga-class
- cruisers) the SPY-1D phased array radar, the SM2MR missile system, and a
- small flock of computer systems.
-
- The Phalanx CIWS (Close-In Weapons System) consists of a standalone weapons
- mount with a 30mm cannon, controlled by an integral radar on top of the
- mount; if it required the Aegis system to function, then the Navy's thrown
- away the millions of dollars it's spent installing them on _all_ their
- combatant vessels.
-
- The Vulcan cannon is a 20mm Gatling autocannon originally developed for use
- as an aircraft cannon; it acquired the Vulcan designation when the weapon
- was modified for ground anti-air use, being mounted on a towed trailer and
- later on a heavily-modified tracked vehicle chassis. The weapon was a
- companion to the Chaparral system, a four-rail missile launcher firing
- AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, which was also mounted on trailers and modified
- tracked vehicles. The Vulcan system suffered from inadequate fire support
- aids, rendering its effectiveness almost entirely dependent on the skill of
- the operator.
-
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