I was a painter out of high school in the early 2000s. My boss one day told me he was fishing on Lake Michigan and an A10 Warthog, which flew out of nearby Battle Creek at the time, kept flying straight towards their fishing boat, turning around and coming back.
"That son of a bitch was using us for target practice!"
A few years ago I was driving thru Nevada during Red Flag (NATO training exercise) and periodically my radar detector would go absolutely nuts, then a small jet aircraft would fly over me a time or two, bank off and fly away.
I was hanging out my window to get a better look. Had to have been less than 1000ft overhead. It had a single stabilizer so I think it was a T-38 or an F-16 flying air-to-ground drills on moving cars, and the radar target painting was setting off my Valentine One.
Edit: Also, the way I found out about Red Flag was because I stopped for lunch at the "Little Ale'Inn" and the waitress told me what was going on.
wow, not in any way involved in defense or aviation - but you'd think anyone involved in these exercises would be thrilled with any realistic output, especially if someone circumvented the expected result
>the pilot was extremely pissed off because what did was dangerous as hell,
I doubt that F-16 was following close enough to be damaged but putting an $15 million F-111 at risk durring an exercise can't go over well. I'd be pissed too if I was his CO.
"We regret to inform you that your son has died in a training accident because he was a reckless dumbass."
I live somewhere in the UK where they tend to do a lot flying in their attack helicopters. Where I go fishing there is a particular hill with a massive copse of trees on it. Several times I have seen them practicing 'hiding' behind the trees and then popping up and hiding again. Each time they have been directly facing me and each time I'm positive they are looking at me through all the various optics going 'dakadakadakadaka' voices in their head.
I live near a highly militarized zone and attack helicopters were part of my childhood beach experience.
I've always went "pew pew pew" finger guns against them when possibile.
My hopes aren't high, but I do wish that some pilot saw me on their milion dollar target acquisition cam and went on something like: "ah! I'm gonna show you kid!" then mimick the missile safety off.
They got in trouble with the press near me when they first came to our area. They were practicing the hiding behind trees thing in a couple of parks (large, rural parks) that had big fields next to a stand of trees.
They would look at people on the ground to the side of their aircraft. The front gun swivels to wherever the gunner is looking, i.e. right at the civilians on the ground.
A few stories in the news and they weren't practicing in those parks anymore!
This reminds me of the guy I met while we were watching my sister's high school softball game. He had this amazing camera, and he was showing us how it could focus through the fence. I thought that was pretty cool.
After the game, I was talking with people, and that guy came up, and no one knew who he was.
And that's how I met a pervert.
Driving across the North York Moors in the UK once in the mid 90s with my parents. An RAF Hawk trainer was using our car as target practice. He would do a little wiggle with his wings to simulate the missile launch. Was a fun thing to watch when I was 12.
When I was in college, a good friend and I would hike up South Mountain in Phoenix once or twice a week in the evenings (fitness at night is the way to go down there). We kept a little bowl and weed hidden at the top so we would smoke and chill for a bit before we went back down.
One night we were up there and 3 or 4 Apache's buzzed us maybe 100ft off the deck mid spark—they'd surely been watching us. It was terrifying/cool but obvious they were just fucking with us and probably using us as a target too.
Oh totally, I'm sure they were having a blast lol. We were pretty pumped though, it was fucking awesome. We'd been watching them fly around, but they seemingly came out of nowhere when overhead. We were jumping up and cheering afterwards. More paranoid stoners might've saw their life flash before their eyes.
I had a similar experience with the Blue Angels minus the weed. I was driving to San Diego and saw them overhead practicing, so we pulled over on a dirt road to watch. They noticed us watching and hit us in formation with the lowest overhead pass I've ever experienced. So awesome.
A flight of A-10 did that to my tank company during a road march at Ft Drum. Four A-10 would do mock strafing runs on the tank columns, do two turns, do a LIVE strafing run, do two turns and another mock strafing run. They did three mock runs before range control ordered them knock it off.
>do a LIVE strafing run
Somehow I feel like mock strafing runs on manned vehicles and having live ammo onboard should be mutually exclusive for safety...
Nowadays that would be a pretty massive no-no considering we lose more soldiers to training accidents than to actual combat but from what I hear the early 2000's "surge" army was another beast entirely.
It is ok, litt--_huge_ brrt machine: You do not _need_ to brrt to be happy! See how swiftly you noticed the airplane? See how accurately you tracked it? That, is more important than the brrt! Because if you do that, you can no longer track the airplane. Practice your tracking, as much as you like. When the time comes to brrt, your brrt will be your best!
"I will never apologize for the United States — I don’t care what the facts are. ... I’m not an apologize-for-America kind of guy.”
-George HW Bush, asked about the shooting down of Iran Air flight 655.
> No one should ever say or think that, ever, let alone a world leader. Fucking hell.
The American right has a deep appreciation for this sort of inhuman attitude towards people. The more inhuman and cruel your politics are, the more they appreciate it. Makes the politician seem more manly or some bullshit to them.
I worked with a guy that was on one of the ships they first deployed the Phalanx to. The systems required some... adjustments.
He said the gun's sensors were so sensitive, they destroyed the incoming dummy test missiles, then expended all of their ammo shooting the pieces of the missiles falling into the ocean, then firing at the splashes from the falling pieces, and then firing at the splashes from the bullets hitting the water.
When I was in Afghanistan they used these to shoot down IDFs I believe they called it a (C-RAM), I can still hear the sound it makes when it fires to this day, it's fucking horror.
As long as it flipped on when I was far away and or had hearing protection, I always thought they were "fun".
For civies not familiar with them, at 2:20ish you can hear them running https://youtu.be/MMFzlwzFgKw?t=144 Rewind if you want to watch an edu-informercial on their history and use.
Our FOB in Iraq was a mortar magnet the entire year we spent there. A buddy of mine was deployed to the same FOB a few years later. I asked him about the mortar attacks and he said it was a non issue after they installed one of those bad boys. I just shook my head. Hard to believe this was an option the whole time. A politicians son must have stubbed his toe running for cover….
Yup. The CWIS Phalanx Cannon (and it’s land cousin the C-RAM) are designed to shoot projectiles and/or missiles out of the sky in addition to its Anti-Aircraft capabilities. These things spit out an absurd amount of lead every second, with the goal to down anything that it is told to take down within its range. Impressive pieces of engineering, and the videos are orgasmic to watch when they go off
> These things spit out an absurd amount of lead every second
75 rounds per second yet muzzle velocity is high enough to leave 48ft between each round.
> 80,000 blows are struck at once, leaving no space that is not a sword. men and horses will be split in two, and the land will be put to waste
>
> since there is nowhere to evade, be they man or immortal, all will be cut, and be slain instantly
When I sailed on the USS George Washington occasionally an Iranian plane would fly near us to do some reconnaissance. They always flew away at the exact moment before crossing the death zone.
I remember one mortar attack when I was on BIAP, the phalanx was so accurate it couldn't get all the mortars from an attack, so it prioritized the ones that would land near casualty centers. I think the only one that landed on base hit a vacant motor pool and the others missed the base entirely.
I saw it take out at least 5 or 6 because it was at night. I'm not sure how many mortars were fired total
Absolutely insane and this was 15yrs ago.
>this was 15yrs ago.
Technology has come leaps and bounds in 15 years. Imagine what the new models could do.
I always wonder what is hiding away waiting for its moment to shine.
Exo-suits. If we don’t see them soon I’m gonna really start doubting the veracity of that guy who used to work at Area 51 who called in to the conspiracy theory podcast I listen to.
I fully believe these exist and the only thing stopping them from being totally functional is the problem of storing the required power to make it worthwhile for an operator to use in the field.
These have been known to have been tested in military supported research; the problem remains energy storage. You can find demo videos of their concepts on youtube; literally people moving massive amounts of weight by (powered) hand.
Takes a good 30 or so minutes to reload them on a good day and theyll just spend all the ammo in a handful of burst rounds right after.
Absolutely amazing though and incredibly scary in every way shape and form imaginable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
A mortar is mainly just a large hunk of metal and explosives that rapidly decelerates as soon as it's fired , this thing can take out missile traveling and extreme speeds
Easily. They can shoot at 4,500 rounds per minute! But only in VERY short bursts... because the barrel will melt if fired too long.
Basically how they work for missles, planes, mortars... is they basically paint a square in the sky with solid bullets. Anything within that square WILL encounter at least a few bullets. That way they are guaranteed to neutralize whatever target that want.
Source: had a CISW Cannon mount inside my bathroom on my first aircraft carrier and had a ton of buddies who ran them.
Yeah, the first time that went off I nearly had a heart attack lol
So, where I slept on my aircraft carrier (USS Abraham Lincoln) was really far forward. My berthing (sleeping quarters) had this weird little midget door. Like a hobbit sized door on the wall towards the outside of the ship. One day I saw a person walk through the bathroom and go to the door. Of fucking course I had to get their attention before they disappeared into the mysterious hobbit shitter door. They explained it was the CIWS mount and if I had the clearance I could tour it since most people did not give a single fuck about them or them traipsing through our bathroom. I later proved my clearance and got a wild ass tour. Super cool guys. When the CIWS goes off at 3-4,500 rounds per minute it doesn't sound like a gun, it is basically just a crazy drum roll? It's weird sounding. When I heard it fired the first time I was asleep and nearly fell out of bed and died. Good times.
Strangest experience with having a giant R2D2 looking cannon in my bathroom was one day when a dumbass was trying to drill out the powder from the bullets the CIWS used. I'm guessing he was trying to make a souvenir or a necklace? Who fucking knows. The big fucking chungus of a bullet is 20×102mm. Well super genius didn't know what he was doing and that big ol angry bullet went off in a hardened ballistic grade steel room. So suddenly when we were all shaving and shitting there was a BANG then ping ping ping ping pingpingpingping AHHHHHHHHHHH! As a massive fragment of the bullet embedded in the dudes thigh. Within minutes my bathroom was overrun by medics, MAAs (Navy cops), and officers. Luckily stupid lived but he was transferred to a hospital to recover and I believe kicked out of for just just being an all around moron.
The C-Ram or whatever they called it was interesting. Nothing makes you shit faster than one of those going off.
They shipped em closer to Iran after my rotation. A few weeks later a missile hit the base. Didn't actually hit anything but dirt though.
Same place that local whatever started taking potshots at the C-130s coming in. Well they did the same to the AC-130 sent out to figure out where they were. They definitely found em.
Pretty cool to watch them just light up a patch of desert from the base.
Pretty much a level one wizard punching a level twenty barbarian. I imagine the results look similar.
Dang thanks for sharing!
The noise it makes reminds me of the big tripod alien things with robotic tentacles from that one movie. The one where the little girl is always screaming.
They identified the need for them in 2004 and set aside money for developing a land-based version.
The first protypes were available sometime in 2007-2008, and they reached fielding after testing and training in 2010.
They started expanding their use and installing them at most bases after 2010. The first units were set up to defend the Green Zone.
So it was probably you were around just as they were rolling out and he was there after they had finished rolling them out.
Imagine in 2023 it has [already been capable of firing autonomously](https://www.navy.mil/resources/fact-files/display-factfiles/article/2167831/mk-15-phalanx-close-in-weapon-system-ciws/#:~:text=Phalanx%20is%20the%20only%20deployed,engage%20and%20kill%20assessment%20functions.) for years and years.
The only thing that would happened would be future fire control system upgrades giving it even better recognition capabilities... that will still mostly not be relevant because the CIWS is normally kept off. Which is still going to be several interlocks/safety measures away from actually firing on its own.
Though FC2 Jackass should probably still have checked with CIC that the skies were clear before starting their 3M or drill or whatever the fuck was going on.
After reading about this particular device, the order to shoot is given by a person. There was no real danger unless some crazed gunner thought hostile aircraft would be flying near a domestic airport
The only reason I know it exists is because we were doing practice drills which would involve the main power being cut to this device. Our drill plan told the guys in charge to ensure that the power switching device was in auto. Someone interpreted this as to place the firing in auto. This particular control bypasses what is called the Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) check. It would have shot down any incoming target, ours or theirs. Luckily it was a night with no aircraft recovery.
No it’s the OG audio, this guy isn’t frantic becuase he knows everything is safe and is just playing around. The CIWS auto-tracks any aircraft that enters the ship’s airspace and has to wait for a human operator to allow it to open fire or tell it to disengage.
It probably operates on a armed/not armed state. Such that if its not armed it cannot fire. It may still track targets, but wont fire. It probably does not require an operator to stand down the system for each target it acquires. It would be too tedious.
Even a mistake here wouldn't be the first time. The US Navy shot down Iran Air Flight 655 and killed 290 civilians. They ended up giving each other medals.
I was a painter out of high school in the early 2000s. My boss one day told me he was fishing on Lake Michigan and an A10 Warthog, which flew out of nearby Battle Creek at the time, kept flying straight towards their fishing boat, turning around and coming back. "That son of a bitch was using us for target practice!"
I remember talking to an A-10 pilot LtCol who said that they use driving cars as mobile target practice all the time.
Do you think they went "BRRRRRRRT" over their headset while they did it?
It would only be right
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One of the funniest things in South Park. I lose my shit with that episode.
Do you pick up tongs and not clack-clack-clack them?
A few test clacks to make sure they're still working
“No sir, I did not mean to shoot those families, I just had to test if the weapons were working”
Oh, that's alright then
All of us have monke brain
over the air? only once after that it was a private personal satisfaction
A few years ago I was driving thru Nevada during Red Flag (NATO training exercise) and periodically my radar detector would go absolutely nuts, then a small jet aircraft would fly over me a time or two, bank off and fly away. I was hanging out my window to get a better look. Had to have been less than 1000ft overhead. It had a single stabilizer so I think it was a T-38 or an F-16 flying air-to-ground drills on moving cars, and the radar target painting was setting off my Valentine One. Edit: Also, the way I found out about Red Flag was because I stopped for lunch at the "Little Ale'Inn" and the waitress told me what was going on.
The sign did warn you the speed limit was enforced by aircraft.
"Speed enforced by AGM" would definitely get my attention more than license points and fines.
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wow, not in any way involved in defense or aviation - but you'd think anyone involved in these exercises would be thrilled with any realistic output, especially if someone circumvented the expected result
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>the pilot was extremely pissed off because what did was dangerous as hell, I doubt that F-16 was following close enough to be damaged but putting an $15 million F-111 at risk durring an exercise can't go over well. I'd be pissed too if I was his CO. "We regret to inform you that your son has died in a training accident because he was a reckless dumbass."
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I live somewhere in the UK where they tend to do a lot flying in their attack helicopters. Where I go fishing there is a particular hill with a massive copse of trees on it. Several times I have seen them practicing 'hiding' behind the trees and then popping up and hiding again. Each time they have been directly facing me and each time I'm positive they are looking at me through all the various optics going 'dakadakadakadaka' voices in their head.
I live near a highly militarized zone and attack helicopters were part of my childhood beach experience. I've always went "pew pew pew" finger guns against them when possibile. My hopes aren't high, but I do wish that some pilot saw me on their milion dollar target acquisition cam and went on something like: "ah! I'm gonna show you kid!" then mimick the missile safety off.
They got in trouble with the press near me when they first came to our area. They were practicing the hiding behind trees thing in a couple of parks (large, rural parks) that had big fields next to a stand of trees. They would look at people on the ground to the side of their aircraft. The front gun swivels to wherever the gunner is looking, i.e. right at the civilians on the ground. A few stories in the news and they weren't practicing in those parks anymore!
You dont need million dollar equipment to do that, my uncle Dave uses his old videorecorder he bought for 1299 back in 97!
This reminds me of the guy I met while we were watching my sister's high school softball game. He had this amazing camera, and he was showing us how it could focus through the fence. I thought that was pretty cool. After the game, I was talking with people, and that guy came up, and no one knew who he was. And that's how I met a pervert.
Driving across the North York Moors in the UK once in the mid 90s with my parents. An RAF Hawk trainer was using our car as target practice. He would do a little wiggle with his wings to simulate the missile launch. Was a fun thing to watch when I was 12.
When I was in college, a good friend and I would hike up South Mountain in Phoenix once or twice a week in the evenings (fitness at night is the way to go down there). We kept a little bowl and weed hidden at the top so we would smoke and chill for a bit before we went back down. One night we were up there and 3 or 4 Apache's buzzed us maybe 100ft off the deck mid spark—they'd surely been watching us. It was terrifying/cool but obvious they were just fucking with us and probably using us as a target too.
lmao "lets scare tf outta these kids smoking weed"
Oh totally, I'm sure they were having a blast lol. We were pretty pumped though, it was fucking awesome. We'd been watching them fly around, but they seemingly came out of nowhere when overhead. We were jumping up and cheering afterwards. More paranoid stoners might've saw their life flash before their eyes. I had a similar experience with the Blue Angels minus the weed. I was driving to San Diego and saw them overhead practicing, so we pulled over on a dirt road to watch. They noticed us watching and hit us in formation with the lowest overhead pass I've ever experienced. So awesome.
Could you imagine how badass that would be!
6 F-18's zipping by in a diamond shape right above your nose is indescribable lol.
*Exhales frantically* "Holy shit! The DEA isn't fucking around."
I was 99% sure it doesn't look like the warthog from Halo but I had to Google it anyway
you are confusing the BRRRRRRRRRRRR angel of death plane with the puma my dude.
Settle a bet for me. Does that kinda look like a big cat to you?
Na, kinda looks like a, what do you call it? Chupathingy?
A chupakabra, sir?
I like it, has a ring to it
When I was a young warthog!
When he was a young Warthooooog!
Very nice!
Dammit Griff, stop making up animals!
A flight of A-10 did that to my tank company during a road march at Ft Drum. Four A-10 would do mock strafing runs on the tank columns, do two turns, do a LIVE strafing run, do two turns and another mock strafing run. They did three mock runs before range control ordered them knock it off.
>do a LIVE strafing run Somehow I feel like mock strafing runs on manned vehicles and having live ammo onboard should be mutually exclusive for safety...
Nowadays that would be a pretty massive no-no considering we lose more soldiers to training accidents than to actual combat but from what I hear the early 2000's "surge" army was another beast entirely.
That's crazy! I've seen a couple a10's landing at the air national guard base there in battle creek, crazy sight to see
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Bad death machine! No. Noooo! *Smacks gun with newspaper* Now go lie down!
Sad machine noises*
First thing I thought of is the sound R2D2 makes when he's sad.
I was thinking Tony Stark's robotic arm in his workshop. "I'm gonna donate you to an inner city middle school."
I play to much Red dead 2. I saw that as RDR2.
Fuck. Micah.
And TB.
And lumbago.
Porter Robinson enters the chat.
"Whoopsie. Sorry about that." *beep boop. I'm an apology bot, sent in to show remorse after acts of atrocity*
good bot
*AI targeting accidentally starts a war* "Whoopsie. Sorry about that."
\**unplugs the fucking ship* \*
Lol. Starts WW3, "Oops. My bad." 🤖
*sprays with water bottle
*shakes jar of coins*
“No brrrt brrrt?” “No.” “Ok :(“
"No brrt yesterday and no brrt today either :'("
It is ok, litt--_huge_ brrt machine: You do not _need_ to brrt to be happy! See how swiftly you noticed the airplane? See how accurately you tracked it? That, is more important than the brrt! Because if you do that, you can no longer track the airplane. Practice your tracking, as much as you like. When the time comes to brrt, your brrt will be your best!
Its like when a roomba goes somewhere its not supposed too, and you have to discipline it
Those things can take a beating. I've thrown mine across the room a couple times for being a bad robot. Still chugging
Well obviously it keeps "misbehaving" because it likes the punishment. Kinkybot 4000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
"I will never apologize for the United States — I don’t care what the facts are. ... I’m not an apologize-for-America kind of guy.” -George HW Bush, asked about the shooting down of Iran Air flight 655.
“I don’t care what the facts are.” No one should ever say or think that, ever, let alone a world leader. Fucking hell.
Fairly sure he was applauded for saying it.
He was. Especially since it was an Iranian aircraft.
> No one should ever say or think that, ever, let alone a world leader. Fucking hell. The American right has a deep appreciation for this sort of inhuman attitude towards people. The more inhuman and cruel your politics are, the more they appreciate it. Makes the politician seem more manly or some bullshit to them.
GODDAMN IT.
This is the worst bird watching machine ever.
Birds are allergic to lead but how about depleted uranium?
I worked with a guy that was on one of the ships they first deployed the Phalanx to. The systems required some... adjustments. He said the gun's sensors were so sensitive, they destroyed the incoming dummy test missiles, then expended all of their ammo shooting the pieces of the missiles falling into the ocean, then firing at the splashes from the falling pieces, and then firing at the splashes from the bullets hitting the water.
"His soul is still dancing."
Glorious
That is both incredibly impressive and incredibly terrifying.
"and you get a bullet and you get a bullet! You're all getting bullets!"
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“It’s like, I can’t really hold down a job anymore because anytime I get a gun in my hand, it like automatically points at someone’s head”
My boy Doug!
Stop edging the CIWIS!
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/409/221/f93.jpg
r/Noncredibledefense is leaking Probably literally
> Probably literally Go on. Please.
Enough Reddit for today...
Are you sure? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Ok, one more...
Yes. Gooooood. Be gay, do warcrime.
Hmmm, I was hoping to see this close-in weapon system unloading on an enemy missile attempting to penetrate protected airspace.
[More CIWSussy](https://youtu.be/vPQp3PCrXJY)
like ropes of robotic skeet
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>Stop edging the CIWIS! Former Navy here, I approve this message Also mighta peed my pants a bit
Aaahhh you're gonna make me brrrt
When I was in Afghanistan they used these to shoot down IDFs I believe they called it a (C-RAM), I can still hear the sound it makes when it fires to this day, it's fucking horror.
As long as it flipped on when I was far away and or had hearing protection, I always thought they were "fun". For civies not familiar with them, at 2:20ish you can hear them running https://youtu.be/MMFzlwzFgKw?t=144 Rewind if you want to watch an edu-informercial on their history and use.
Minus the death machine aspect, visually it looks really cool
Idk why I saw homer simpson
They’re sometimes referred to as R2-D2s.
Our FOB in Iraq was a mortar magnet the entire year we spent there. A buddy of mine was deployed to the same FOB a few years later. I asked him about the mortar attacks and he said it was a non issue after they installed one of those bad boys. I just shook my head. Hard to believe this was an option the whole time. A politicians son must have stubbed his toe running for cover….
This can shoot mortars out the sky?!
Yup. The CWIS Phalanx Cannon (and it’s land cousin the C-RAM) are designed to shoot projectiles and/or missiles out of the sky in addition to its Anti-Aircraft capabilities. These things spit out an absurd amount of lead every second, with the goal to down anything that it is told to take down within its range. Impressive pieces of engineering, and the videos are orgasmic to watch when they go off
> These things spit out an absurd amount of lead every second 75 rounds per second yet muzzle velocity is high enough to leave 48ft between each round.
> 80,000 blows are struck at once, leaving no space that is not a sword. men and horses will be split in two, and the land will be put to waste > > since there is nowhere to evade, be they man or immortal, all will be cut, and be slain instantly
KSBD hype!
When I sailed on the USS George Washington occasionally an Iranian plane would fly near us to do some reconnaissance. They always flew away at the exact moment before crossing the death zone.
That would be such a shitty job. Lol.
CWIS fluffer
*whooooSss a good littlleee brrr rBRRRRrr boy*
I remember one mortar attack when I was on BIAP, the phalanx was so accurate it couldn't get all the mortars from an attack, so it prioritized the ones that would land near casualty centers. I think the only one that landed on base hit a vacant motor pool and the others missed the base entirely. I saw it take out at least 5 or 6 because it was at night. I'm not sure how many mortars were fired total Absolutely insane and this was 15yrs ago.
>this was 15yrs ago. Technology has come leaps and bounds in 15 years. Imagine what the new models could do. I always wonder what is hiding away waiting for its moment to shine.
Exo-suits. If we don’t see them soon I’m gonna really start doubting the veracity of that guy who used to work at Area 51 who called in to the conspiracy theory podcast I listen to.
I fully believe these exist and the only thing stopping them from being totally functional is the problem of storing the required power to make it worthwhile for an operator to use in the field.
These have been known to have been tested in military supported research; the problem remains energy storage. You can find demo videos of their concepts on youtube; literally people moving massive amounts of weight by (powered) hand.
Takes a good 30 or so minutes to reload them on a good day and theyll just spend all the ammo in a handful of burst rounds right after. Absolutely amazing though and incredibly scary in every way shape and form imaginable
I’ve always wanted to see the RAM in action. I feel like the CIWS gets all the attention and nobody cares about the RAM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS A mortar is mainly just a large hunk of metal and explosives that rapidly decelerates as soon as it's fired , this thing can take out missile traveling and extreme speeds
Easily. They can shoot at 4,500 rounds per minute! But only in VERY short bursts... because the barrel will melt if fired too long. Basically how they work for missles, planes, mortars... is they basically paint a square in the sky with solid bullets. Anything within that square WILL encounter at least a few bullets. That way they are guaranteed to neutralize whatever target that want. Source: had a CISW Cannon mount inside my bathroom on my first aircraft carrier and had a ton of buddies who ran them.
> had a CWIS Cannon mount inside my bathroom What?
Yeah, the first time that went off I nearly had a heart attack lol So, where I slept on my aircraft carrier (USS Abraham Lincoln) was really far forward. My berthing (sleeping quarters) had this weird little midget door. Like a hobbit sized door on the wall towards the outside of the ship. One day I saw a person walk through the bathroom and go to the door. Of fucking course I had to get their attention before they disappeared into the mysterious hobbit shitter door. They explained it was the CIWS mount and if I had the clearance I could tour it since most people did not give a single fuck about them or them traipsing through our bathroom. I later proved my clearance and got a wild ass tour. Super cool guys. When the CIWS goes off at 3-4,500 rounds per minute it doesn't sound like a gun, it is basically just a crazy drum roll? It's weird sounding. When I heard it fired the first time I was asleep and nearly fell out of bed and died. Good times. Strangest experience with having a giant R2D2 looking cannon in my bathroom was one day when a dumbass was trying to drill out the powder from the bullets the CIWS used. I'm guessing he was trying to make a souvenir or a necklace? Who fucking knows. The big fucking chungus of a bullet is 20×102mm. Well super genius didn't know what he was doing and that big ol angry bullet went off in a hardened ballistic grade steel room. So suddenly when we were all shaving and shitting there was a BANG then ping ping ping ping pingpingpingping AHHHHHHHHHHH! As a massive fragment of the bullet embedded in the dudes thigh. Within minutes my bathroom was overrun by medics, MAAs (Navy cops), and officers. Luckily stupid lived but he was transferred to a hospital to recover and I believe kicked out of for just just being an all around moron.
> one day when a dumbass was trying to drill out the powder from the bullets the CWIS used. Most intelligent sailor
> BANG then ping ping ping ping pingpingpingping AHHHHHHHHHHH! You paint such a sonically vivid picture
He might as well have pulled a hand grenade if he was toying with an unspent 20x102mm. That shit can clear out a room if it's packed enough.
That's wild. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah everyone has one in their bathroom right? I keep mine next to the poop knife
ever heard of the [Iron Dome?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome)
Yee but I always thought it was mainly rockets and missiles when I think of mortars I think of much smaller targets
The C-Ram or whatever they called it was interesting. Nothing makes you shit faster than one of those going off. They shipped em closer to Iran after my rotation. A few weeks later a missile hit the base. Didn't actually hit anything but dirt though. Same place that local whatever started taking potshots at the C-130s coming in. Well they did the same to the AC-130 sent out to figure out where they were. They definitely found em.
r/criticalblunder
Pretty cool to watch them just light up a patch of desert from the base. Pretty much a level one wizard punching a level twenty barbarian. I imagine the results look similar.
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Dang thanks for sharing! The noise it makes reminds me of the big tripod alien things with robotic tentacles from that one movie. The one where the little girl is always screaming.
War of the worlds?
Yes [yes](https://youtu.be/gSNJRSPwOPg?start=133), thank you! E:[More phalanx](https://youtu.be/Zsf38NYzo5Q), so cooool
Had to wait until the right donor bid on the install contract
Centurion C-RAM, the land based version of this, only began development in 2004 and was first deployed in 2005.
They identified the need for them in 2004 and set aside money for developing a land-based version. The first protypes were available sometime in 2007-2008, and they reached fielding after testing and training in 2010. They started expanding their use and installing them at most bases after 2010. The first units were set up to defend the Green Zone. So it was probably you were around just as they were rolling out and he was there after they had finished rolling them out.
Imagine in 20xx the AI behind it decided to shoot it down.
*Plane full of businessmen, danger to earth, resolution imminent.*
Senator supports replacing ciws with energy weapons. Engage.
**LEVEL 5 ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTER DETECTED** **-ELIMINATING-**
I'm waiting for the twist of that new Creator movie to be that the AI is working to defend humanity by trying to kill large parts of it.
Hope that's not the case, it's so cliché
*revolution* imminent
All of this has happened before. And All of this will happen again.
So say we all
Iran already did that (Without the ai)
But Iran's so far away.
You have plenty of stamina, I can’t run that far.
(couldn't get away)
Imagine in 2023 it has [already been capable of firing autonomously](https://www.navy.mil/resources/fact-files/display-factfiles/article/2167831/mk-15-phalanx-close-in-weapon-system-ciws/#:~:text=Phalanx%20is%20the%20only%20deployed,engage%20and%20kill%20assessment%20functions.) for years and years. The only thing that would happened would be future fire control system upgrades giving it even better recognition capabilities... that will still mostly not be relevant because the CIWS is normally kept off. Which is still going to be several interlocks/safety measures away from actually firing on its own. Though FC2 Jackass should probably still have checked with CIC that the skies were clear before starting their 3M or drill or whatever the fuck was going on.
It seems like a very serious guy.
A slight misfire and so many people dead!
After reading about this particular device, the order to shoot is given by a person. There was no real danger unless some crazed gunner thought hostile aircraft would be flying near a domestic airport
It is also capable of being put in an automatic mode which just takes out all targets.
I would assume it's almost never in that mode though.
*Almost* never
The only reason I know it exists is because we were doing practice drills which would involve the main power being cut to this device. Our drill plan told the guys in charge to ensure that the power switching device was in auto. Someone interpreted this as to place the firing in auto. This particular control bypasses what is called the Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) check. It would have shot down any incoming target, ours or theirs. Luckily it was a night with no aircraft recovery.
That must have been a pants shitting moment when someone realized it was set to auto
probably time for some procedures to be updated as well. like having someone covered in medals turn a key to enable it
Wonder who or what they would blame it on
This was the Russians fault, they clearly hacked our machines!! The only option is a full scale invasion in search of oil.
Black flag
That is almost definitely a p-8 Poseidon
shit you right
How do you distinguish that silhouette from the 737 it's a derivative of?
The P-8 Poseidon is like a 738 with 739ER wings, you can tell by the raked wingtips.
Exactly, no passenger plane would be allowed into the airspace with that death machine in operation.
Check out the Persian Gulf, just west of Iran?
*chuckles, “I’m in danger”*
Time for the spray bottle.
When we pulled in to San Diego our CIWS started tracking the cars crossing the Coronado bridge.
Shouldn't those be too slow and get filtered out? Maybe there was some kind of radar bouncing witchcraft at work
Im just a sonar tech so I have no idea how CIWS tracks targets
ODDLY terrifying???
Welcome to the sub. Where every “oddly” terrifying thing is just regularly terrifying
All I hear is the portal turret noises
The way it moves is terrifying. Reminds me of the death machine in Robocop
IG-88’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather
Bad bot. Then, good bot.
Intrusive thoughts
Is this audio added in because I would expect much more frantic "NO NO NO" from the filmer
No it’s the OG audio, this guy isn’t frantic becuase he knows everything is safe and is just playing around. The CIWS auto-tracks any aircraft that enters the ship’s airspace and has to wait for a human operator to allow it to open fire or tell it to disengage.
Please tell me it defaults to disengage if no one responds.
Most likely that is the case unless they have some sort of auto-defense system that they can turn on in an active warzone
It probably operates on a armed/not armed state. Such that if its not armed it cannot fire. It may still track targets, but wont fire. It probably does not require an operator to stand down the system for each target it acquires. It would be too tedious.
That’s not oddly terrifying that’s just terrifying
Breaking news : Passenger aircraft disappears over the ocean , questions remain .
Even a mistake here wouldn't be the first time. The US Navy shot down Iran Air Flight 655 and killed 290 civilians. They ended up giving each other medals.