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- From: "Sean J. Roc D'Arcy" <bphdarcy@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu>
- Subject: Re: Tomahawk cost
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:52:39 GMT
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- From "Sean J. Roc D'Arcy" <bphdarcy@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu>
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- In article <C17vrM.Exy@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes...
- > 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?
-
- Where did the number 100 come from??? Better yet, what was the Silkworm
- number??
-
- As far as what stopped them, range was a major factor. Also, lack of
- targeting information. And don't forget old style intercepting.
-
- > 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?
-
- Strange as it seems, it seems that is was British helocopters that
- intercepted the only publicized close missle attack (this may be
- inaccurate, but I think its correct). Also, I doubt anything ever got
- close enough for a CIWS to be needed. I am under the impression that
- devices such as Sea-sparrows and the like are not considered CIWS, let
- alone some of the RIMs fired from Ticonderogas and the like.
-
- > 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.
-
- I guess air power has been overlooked completely in this statement. I
- could see 20 land based F/A-18s launching simultaneously from 20 different
- directions right off the coast.
-
- > 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.
-
- No, but they DO NOT act independently. Much more complex targeting and
- controol system than you seem to indicate. In your example above, you seem
- to indicate that a ship carries many, many (like more than ten) Phalanx
- systems. Not the case. I believe the average is between two and three and
- they are responisble for a large area in the CIWS layout.
-
- SJRD
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