Re: 7.62 chaingun? was Re: UK Sabre CVR(T) type vehicle

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Robert W. Hofrichter wrote:

> Of course, then there's the awesome 30mm GAU-8, but that's
> another story in itself.
> 
> The 7.62 and the 20mm are used mostly on aircraft installations
(though the
> 20mm is used as the gun portion of the American Phalanx CIWS and the
old
> M113-based AA vehicle whose name escapes me at the moment).

speaking of GAU-8 and CIWS, there's a euro-NATO system called
'goalkeeper'
which does with the GAU-8 what phalanx did with the vulcan, and makes it
into an automatic CIWS mount. i'm entirely sure why they decided on such
a
hefty gun - perhaps the admiralty were anticipating the soviets
retrofitting old T-72s with rocket motors for anti-ship use ...

tom