On 9/10/04 1:54 AM, in article , "Jim
Carriere" wrote:

Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal wrote:
On 9/9/04 5:50 PM, in article ,
"Morten Lund" wrote:


Mike Kanze wrote:

Pugs,

SNIP

Too bad CIWS is not optically-guided. The Intruder's sheer ugliness would
have frustrated acquisition by the R2D2-san. g

Hmm, I thought I saw som kind of optronic device on recent pictures of
one of the latest blocks; A recent addition I'm sure, but is that for
the gunners mate, or autonomus-mode operation?

/Morten
Harpoon 4 boardgame affectionado, no real experience whatsoever


I've never seen one with a lens on it.

A few of them have a FLIR mod, I suppose the plan is for all of them
eventually.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/.../wep-phal.html

I think the first time I saw one with this was only a couple years ago.


A little internet research suggests that the reason I haven't seen it is
because it's not on CV's yet. Looks like the FLIR/optics are for surface
targets and that as of about a year ago, it's only been on small boys.

--Woody