RE: PDS - Super Rapid Fire Guns

>From the description of the short wave radar - it sounds a lot like an
aegis fire control system linked into a target acquisition radar
commonly used on destroyers and cruisers.  The problem with the system
isn't it's size, it could be mounted on a chasis:  the problem is in the
volume of fire it sends forth and space needed for storage of ammo.  If
a scaled down version could be created with a denser bullet, I'd imagine
it could rip a missile apart in no time from the ground. As it stands, I
believe the smallest calibur used is 20mm (a vulcan).
As far as knocking out a UD-APFSDS round, if enough 20mm hits it - it'll
deflect the trajectory of the round enough to avoid collision.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but isn't this the basis for the scattergun pack
in FT used by the Kra-vak except it isn't linked to a targeting
computer.  
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>From:	Tim Jones[SMTP:Tim.Jones@Smallworld.co.uk]
>Sent:	Friday, September 26, 1997 7:03 AM
>To:	'FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk'
>Subject:	PDS - Super Rapid Fire Guns
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>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...
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>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.
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>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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