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    Old School Military Firepower

    When the incoming missiles dont get knocked out when they're far away, this gun will take care of business. I work for a company that makes part of this shipboard system, called the Phalanx.
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    If you havent heard one and you are within 200yds the very sound of it will put you to your knees.

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    Sweet...if you're behind it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Sweet...if you're behind it.
    There was another YouTube where the gunners were whooping and hollering' after destroying a Somali pirates boat.

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    Wouldn't it be fun to fire one of those but filled with rotten eggs at those lefty liberal marches

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    Wouldn't it be fun to fire one of those but filled with rotten eggs at those lefty liberal marches
    No. As is is fine.

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    Reminds me of the Vulcan we used in the Army!



    I was in a missile maintenance company and some of my friends were in the Air Defense section and worked on those.

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    I worked on ground systems, the Lance, Sheleighly, TOW and Dragon systems.

    The Sheleighly was being phased out during my training so we never actually worked on them after school.

    The Dragon was scary dangerous. They were known to hit the dirt or even turn around and come back towards the firer.


    We should have fired up all our Lance missiles in Desert Storm, but they could not be deployed over there because they had nuke capability. Shamefully, I am sure it cost billions to disarm and destroy them instead. They were propelled by two very deadly acids mixing together.


    The T.O.W. is still being used today, it has been around since the Vietnam era.


    The computer system that was used for testing them was so large that it fit into an enclosure that was transported on a 5-ton Long bed truck, similar to the one in the pic. The computer system shown in the pic is like the one that we used in the classroom, taken out of it's shelter and re-assembled.

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    These were fun, I loved the sound.



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    Yeah, the only time I got to fire one of them was in basic in '79. That was a few days ago!

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