"Montblack" wrote in message
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("Jon Woellhaf" wrote)
I don't think F-16 are necessary. The Phalanx guns I imagine to be
strategically placed around the White House and Pentagon should be quite
effective against a King Air.


Read the Product Warning Label: Not recommended for use in urban areas.

Otherwise, it's a great weapon system for a carrier task force out at sea.

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

http://www.colosseumbuilders.com/john/nj/phalanx.htm
(Up close photos)


Montblack
http://www.montysminiguns.com/RealityPage.htm
(What the heck, while we're at it .... fun site)

The CIWS is amazingly agile for its size.

Spent a week at Norfolk back in the late '80s shooting video for RCA while
the Navy replaced the starboard/forward Aegis radar plate on the CG-47 (USS
Ticonderoga.)

Each morning, they would run the CIWS mounts through a diagnostic routine
that looked a lot like a mechanical form of "jazzercize." Just spinning up
the barrells, it was LOUD!

Don't know what the official numbers are, but I'd bet it can rotate and
elevate at rates exceeding 90 degrees a second and at 4500 rounds/min, they
can throw out a lot of lead (er, depleted uranium.)

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ