Refresh Comments
Anonymous comments allowed.
4 comments displayed.
#78
-
anonchief (12/16/2015) [-] 
The description on the video with the "AA guns" is wrong. Those are Phalanx CRAM (Counter Rocket Artillery and Mortar) guns. Basically, they are smaller versions of the 30mm GAU-8 gatling gun mounted on the A-10 that is controlled by a targeting computer (the big dome on top) to shoot down, you guessed it, rockets, artillery, and mortars.
These ******* fling thousands of bullets downrange to incoming mortars in the hopes that it hits them.
And most of the time, the mortar doesn't even explode, its sorta just... pushed out of the way. The bright white flashes seen are the bullets hitting the mortars.
Also, they are A LOT more terrifying when you get the audio as well.
#94 to #78
-
funnyhatoo (12/16/2015) [-]
are you sure the bright flashes are the bullets hitting the mortars? It just seems like a terribly lot of flashes, so that must mean there are hundreds of thousands of mortars and don't artillery fire, like... less than that?
#96 to #94
-
anonchief (12/16/2015) [-] All of those flashes result from the bullets hitting one mortar. A lot of the time, the mortar wont blow up, and will sorta just get pushed out of its initial trajectory, as i said before.
So in one set of white flashes, that is all one mortar. In this video, i think 5 or so mortars are fired and deflected.
So in one set of white flashes, that is all one mortar. In this video, i think 5 or so mortars are fired and deflected.
