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To: Spktyr

CIWS on this thing would just turn it to a big pile of incoming kenetic energy.

Might couple the damage better than a conventional WH.

Hard to get WH fuzed right at that speed, and probably a nearly level impact angle.


15 posted on 03/26/2017 7:10:01 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: Scrambler Bob

You don’t take out the missile you go after the delivery system before it launches.


22 posted on 03/26/2017 7:21:38 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

It would be a big cloud of rapidly decelerating kinetic energy that would be small enough for shipboard armor to withstand. Or it could simply deflect it into the ocean assuming it’s a sea-skimmer. Point is, CIWS has a better chance of stopping it than C-RAM does and it can try to stop more missiles than the C-RAM system we idiotically replaced the Phalanxes with.


27 posted on 03/26/2017 7:25:57 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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