Whats Going On In London?

[socks 32,253]

That brings back some memories .... infant I'm going to sue you .... you've brought on my PTSD ... lol ........

[baz 464]

That's a serious bit of kit... I'm thinking every uk town should get one, haha, how many rounds does that fire?

[riohog 5,818]

 

That brings back some memories .... infant I'm going to sue you .... you've brought on my PTSD ... lol ........

 

lol sea wizz they do the job

[riohog 5,818]

That's a serious bit of kit... I'm thinking every uk town should get one, haha, how many rounds does that fire?

4 t0 6000 pm

[Nik_B 3,790]

They are directed by radar but still need an operative sat with them to make sure of no computer error and they always hit ... unfortunately sometimes that's a bad thing ... we had a particular day in Iraq where we were hit with rocket attacks over twenty times in one day ( I spent more time on my belly than on my feet that day lol ) one of the rockets that came over was going to miss by a mile but the phalanx hit it and took the tail off it and it came down in camp and killed 4 Norwegian soldiers .... but on balance they saved hundreds more ......

 

Thanks Socks

 

Amazing technology, I have seen those videos from the Navy ships but I never in a million years though they had them covering our bases on land it just didn't occur to me that that radar would work very well in a desert as there is little ground clutter.

[Nik_B 3,790]

Holy f**k

 

[Nik_B 3,790]

See this is why I was asking what might seem odd questions a while back particularly about range of engagement, not because I am imagining what it is like but because I am trying to understand how things work and at what ranges etc, it's very hard (for a civilian) to imagine what an infantryman goes through because the videos (even the good ones) make it look like people are shooting at nothing and you can't see what they can see with their eyes.

 

I have always been interested in how radar and surface to air missiles work for example, you really have to dig through the internet to understand how they work and what the operator is seeing and doing because it is simply never talked about in books, and films are just ridiculous.

 

Thanks for the insight

[Guest edrd]

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Edited March 3, 2018 by edrd

[riohog 5,818]

See this is why I was asking what might seem odd questions a while back particularly about range of engagement, not because I am imagining what it is like but because I am trying to understand how things work and at what ranges etc, it's very hard (for a civilian) to imagine what an infantryman goes through because the videos (even the good ones) make it look like people are shooting at nothing and you can't see what they can see with their eyes.

 

I have always been interested in how radar and surface to air missiles work for example, you really have to dig through the internet to understand how they work and what the operator is seeing and doing because it is simply never talked about in books, and films are just ridiculous.

 

Thanks for the insight

tecnoligy has come on leeps and bounds early days of ground /sea to air missiles were fly by wire operator with a joy stick ..lol theres some very special magic wands out there now

[socks 32,253]

Holy f**k

 

lol yep that's the exact sounds you hear ... a few times a day is ok ... when it runs into dozens it becomes a tad tiresome lol .... I would hazard a gues them felllas were sat in a warrior by the way the commander was asking for HE .......

[Nik_B 3,790]

After watching that video my new petrol chipper is not going to half the fun I was hoping it would be anymore

[socks 32,253]

 

See this is why I was asking what might seem odd questions a while back particularly about range of engagement, not because I am imagining what it is like but because I am trying to understand how things work and at what ranges etc, it's very hard (for a civilian) to imagine what an infantryman goes through because the videos (even the good ones) make it look like people are shooting at nothing and you can't see what they can see with their eyes.

 

I have always been interested in how radar and surface to air missiles work for example, you really have to dig through the internet to understand how they work and what the operator is seeing and doing because it is simply never talked about in books, and films are just ridiculous.

 

Thanks for the insight

 

tecnoligy has come on leeps and bounds early days of ground /sea to air missiles were fly by wire operator with a joy stick ..lol theres some very special magic wands out there now

The old MILAN system lol .......

[C556 351]

Gulf States refusing to allow anything Qatari related to dock at their ports. This has really come out of the blue I don't think anyone would have seen this coming.

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-06/gulf-states-launch-naval-blockade-qatar

Gulf States vs Qatar, Turkey and Iran?

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/why-campaign-against-qatar-doomed-1663040860

[riohog 5,818]

 

 

See this is why I was asking what might seem odd questions a while back particularly about range of engagement, not because I am imagining what it is like but because I am trying to understand how things work and at what ranges etc, it's very hard (for a civilian) to imagine what an infantryman goes through because the videos (even the good ones) make it look like people are shooting at nothing and you can't see what they can see with their eyes.

 

I have always been interested in how radar and surface to air missiles work for example, you really have to dig through the internet to understand how they work and what the operator is seeing and doing because it is simply never talked about in books, and films are just ridiculous.

 

Thanks for the insight

tecnoligy has come on leeps and bounds early days of ground /sea to air missiles were fly by wire operator with a joy stick ..lol theres some very special magic wands out there now

The old MILAN system lol .......

 

fk me first war ship i was on had fkn boffers guns they did upgrade to sea cat surface to air miss sure that fkr was clockwork haaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Nik_B 3,790]

 

 

See this is why I was asking what might seem odd questions a while back particularly about range of engagement, not because I am imagining what it is like but because I am trying to understand how things work and at what ranges etc, it's very hard (for a civilian) to imagine what an infantryman goes through because the videos (even the good ones) make it look like people are shooting at nothing and you can't see what they can see with their eyes.

 

I have always been interested in how radar and surface to air missiles work for example, you really have to dig through the internet to understand how they work and what the operator is seeing and doing because it is simply never talked about in books, and films are just ridiculous.

 

Thanks for the insight

tecnoligy has come on leeps and bounds early days of ground /sea to air missiles were fly by wire operator with a joy stick ..lol theres some very special magic wands out there now

The old MILAN system lol .......

 

 

When you think about it, that is a really clever idea I suppose it cannot be jammed/defeated (or can it?) where as optically tracked missiles can.

 

The Germans were the first to use guided missiles in WW2 as far as I know, the Fritz-X and Henschel Hs 293 but we learned quickly how to jam their signals. That is pretty impressive technology for 75 years ago.