Guys,

Does this qualify?



General Characteristics
Primary Function: Anti-ship missile defense
Contractor:Raytheon Systems Company (formerly Hughes Missile Systems Company and purchased from General Dynamics Pomona Division in 1992)
Weight: 12,500 pounds (5,625 kg) - Later models: 13,600 pounds (6,120 kg)
Range: Classified
Gun Type: M-61A1 Gatling
Type of Fire: 3,000 rounds per minute - Later models: 4,500 rounds/min (starting 1988 production, Pneumatic Gun Drive)
Magazine Capacity: 989 rounds - Later models: 1,550 rounds
Caliber: 20mm
Ammunition: Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot (APDS), Depleted Uranium sub-caliber penetrator. Penetrator changed to Tungsten 1988. Block 1B will incorporate the new Enhanced Lethality Cartridge with a heavier penetrator.
Sensors: Self-contained search and track radar with integrated FLIR
Date Deployed:
1980 (aboard USS Coral Sea)
Block 1: 1988 (aboard USS Wisconsin)
Block 1B: 1999 (aboard USS Underwood)

The new rate of fire is above 4800 rounds per minute BTW...enjoy

That would be great for a heard of charging elephants.... It is a little on the heavy side, however.

For use on elephant I think its a 12 million dollar hambuger machine.

I have witnessed testing of 'Vulcan' cannons at certain VT, USA base, it was impressive I assure you!

Why NOT?

Animals ain't HUMAN!
It'd be good practice.
Let the 'BUFF' know how tough he AIN'T. ( Like he'd realize it, anyway! )
Hey, does this gun have 'CRF'?
Is it good in the 'thick stuff'?
Should it have iron sights?

HEY~! I'm KIDDING!
Of course this gun 'qualifies', albeit at a 'distance'...

that's the phalanx, called r2d2 by swabbies...

excellent for anti-missle.. but the ship commander has to go weapons free for them to work. ... a literal wall of steel

jeffe

Jeffeosso,

When these are in full automatic, they are nasty hunter seekers. When anything is outside the ship they are kicked into manual mode they atill seek and track, but they are manually fired.

There are also land based versions being fielded, they are for defense of RPG and mortars.

Raytheon also has a SeaRam version that has the gun turrent replaced with a 11 missile battery.

Of real interst is the round itself, has anybody paid any attention to these? Real long Ogive projectiles, compare this to a typical big bore side by side the firsat thing your going to notice is how long one of these loaded rounds is, and yes I am fully aware none of use are going to be using depleted uranuim projectiles, or any of the other tricked and expendive bullets but the comparision is interesting none the less.