Re: 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...

Missles being _much_ easier targets than shells...

>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.

Also there is the Phalanx used on ships. Didn't do much for the Stark
though.
Don't forget that radar can always be jammed so long as the firing
system
doesn't rely on it for targeting (ie laser, IR, bore sight, etc.).

>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
>--
>The stars are matter, We're matter, But it doesn't matter.