PDS - Super Rapid Fire Guns

On Thursday, September 25, 1997 10:22 PM, Brian Burger
> [SMTP:burger00@camosun.bc.ca] wrote:
The
> problem with PDSs is not really volume of fire, but where to aim that

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

> From the description of the short wave radar - it sounds a lot like an
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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> On Thursday, September 25, 1997 10:22 PM, Brian Burger

Missles being _much_ easier targets than shells...

> Probably very short wave radar might pickup the incoming shell and

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