PDS - Super Rapid Fire Guns

On Thursday, September 25, 1997 10:22 PM, Brian Burger 
[SMTP:burger00@camosun.bc.ca] wrote:
> >
> Sounds like a viable real-world PDS system is closer than I'd thought.
The
> problem with PDSs is not really volume of fire, but where to aim that
fire
> - you need to find, lock onto and destroy the shell/missle in the few
> seconds between it firing and it hitting you...not easy...

Probably very short wave radar might pickup the incoming shell and
direct the
PDS system . The Goalkeeper PDS uses a radar to track its own bullets
and 
then tries to converge the stream on the target. I also heard of a
system 
that detects sniper bullets and tells you where they are coming from
(for VIP 
protection)This stuff is likely to improve in the very near future.

As long as you could get the general direction the new gun delivers a
cloud 
of projectiles which have a high probability of hitting something. I
doubt 
they could destroy a depleted uranium APFSDS round but should be able
to deflect it off target, hopefully.

sincerely
tim jones
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