Phalanx CIWS system firing



    by AccomplishedStuff235

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    1. in_for_the_comments on

      When you’re deployed and it goes off the first time, it’s like an alarm clock. You supposed to be up cooking breakfast anyway.

      Bubrub and Lil sis

    2. Live_Bridge_6880 on

      Can this thing lean back far enough to hit a missile that gets shot high and comes straight down towards the ship?

    3. And that recording is a not even close to the sound you hear when it fires a few feet away from you. You feel it in your bones.

    4. I thought it missed but the intercept happened really early that I just missed it the first time

    5. This is C-RAM not Phalanx. Not too big a deal they both use the same 20mm gun. Both are FUCKING AWESOME.

    6. These were pretty neat and really helpful against IDF in Iraq and Afghanistan. I got caught out away from a bunker on FOB Shank during the daily rocket attack and was so mesmerized watching the CRAM firing to intercept I forgot why I was laying in the dirt.

    7. Army Guy: “Watch the most expensive mouse click ever when I command this thing to go off!”

      Cloudflare engineer: “Hold my weed pen”

    8. Fun fact, when it’s on a land system, either truck or semi permanent construction it’s a C-RAM, counter rocket, artillery, missiles. It’s CIWS with ship based systems, was a CIWS tech and operator for 6 years, awesome system hard to maintain

    9. Zoom_Zoom_Zeus on

      One of the things I will never forget 20 years later. On my first deployment to Iraq I was working my first shift with my crew 3 days into my deployment. They said meet us at the smoke shack at 1030pm and we’ll walk together. So I’m standing there smoking a cig as my crew starts showing up. We’re about to leave and the loudest thing I’ve ever heard starts going off. It was so terrifying I hit the dirt and curled up into fetal position thinking we were being mortared. It stops and I look up to see the group still standing, now staring at me (the only one on the ground). Dude looks at me and says “welcome to Balad”. Smoke shack that we met at was next to a C-RAM.

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