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

In a message dated 4/23/00 7:18:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk writes:

<< 
 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 ...
  >>

the Goalkeeper system is as old as the CIWS and has been pulled out of
more 
ships than it equips now in favor of the CIWS. The 30mm gun in the
goalkeeper 
and the 30mm gun in the GAU 8 share only the diameter of the bore.