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- From: hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
- Subject: Re: Tomahawk cost
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- References: <C15yqv.L3v@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:38:10 GMT
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- From hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
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- In article <C15yqv.L3v@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID) writes:
- |> From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil> Jan Wolitzy writes:
- |>> The anti-shipping version is terminally guided, and so would probably
- |>> be effective were it not for the effectiveness of (cheaper) shipboard
- |> close-in defense systems.
- |>
- |> Rather a broad statement, considering the fact that no CIWS has yet
- |> received a proper testing in actual combat, with multiple missiles
- |> incoming from unknown directions. As far as I can tell all successful
- |> CIWS firings have been in tests, with a single missile or a pair arriving
- |> from a known direction. Were there any actual combat kills of a single
- |> missile yet? Not counting Silkworms :)
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- Why not counting Silkworms? It's an anti-ship missile isn't?
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- It has been reported that the Iraqi's fired something like 100 Exocets
- and numerous Silkworms, yet none are known to have hit any ships. If
- the CIWS didn't stop them, what did?
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- Wasn't a British frigate or such credited with downing several missiles
- with its CIWS while operating near that big island near Kuwait city?
- Wasn't the Missouri also involved?
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- The only way you could have "multiple missiles incoming from unknown
- directions", is to be on the open ocean at war with some other major
- sea power or somekind of surprise attack while in a inland sea or such.
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- Besides, each CIWS station is responsible for only a small quadrant
- of the ship's perimeter and acts independently and automatically (in
- the case of Phalanx at least). None of them cover a 360 deg circle by
- itself.
-
- And what about the Falklands?
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- TRAVIS
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