Neat footage of the US Navy firing exercise....

[SEIndSAM]

I don't know why the video cuts in and out, but here is some neat footage of firing ofPhalanx close-in weapon system during a recent training exercise. It sounds like a chainsaw.

Watch: USS Hue City conducts live-fire exercise - UPI.com

 

[Alamo]

It sounds like a chainsaw.

Many years ago I watched some A-10s working the range at Atterbury, first time to see them using weapons. We were pumped up to be able to observe this, American's premiere tank-killer aircraft. We were expecting, I dunno, an earthshattering kaboom I guess. When the first one came in and fired, it sounded like a high pressure...fart. Funny, but sort of a let down.

 

[Woobie]

Brrrrt!

Never seen those in action. Pretty awesome.

The A-10's are awesome. It's a strange sound, but you can feel it in the ground a mile or so away.

 

[fullauto 45]

Go to Knob Creek this spring and watch and listen to the mini guns. It will give a chub just listening to them going off.
And yes, the A-10's use to cruise over Swee****er lake in the early 70's and make runs on the range at Atterbury. I watched them come in so low and upside down the pilots would wave at us on the boats.

 

[patience0830]

Go to Knob Creek this spring and watch and listen to the mini guns. It will give a chub just listening to them going off.
And yes, the A-10's use to cruise over Sweet water lake in the early 70's and make runs on the range at Atterbury. I watched them come in so low and upside down the pilots would wave at us on the boats.

FTFY

Apparently, t water is forbidden.

 

[masterdekoy]

When I was in Iraq they used phalanxes to shoot down mortars shot at LSA Anaconda. Remember being on patrol at night a couple of times when they went off. Pretty impressive fireworks. I don't think they were very effective as the mortars would still come down on the base even if the phalanx connected.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Go to Knob Creek this spring and watch and listen to the mini guns. It will give a chub just listening to them going off.
And yes, the A-10's use to cruise over Swee****er lake in the early 70's and make runs on the range at Atterbury. I watched them come in so low and upside down the pilots would wave at us on the boats.

I remember a late night on a buddy's boat on Cordry watching for meteors in the big section near the levy. We sat there looking through the trees watching cars slowly come down the hill before they would cross the levy, but they never came. Always down the hill slowly, and would always disappear before they reached the levy.

Then we realized there was no hill.
Then we realized that direction was atterbury.
Then it hit us. Illumination flares lighting up the range for exercises. We were watching the white flares drift down and they would disappear behind a hill. Looked just like distant car headlights thru the trees. LOL

And yes, the BRRRRT is anticlimactic by itself. but watching what the rounds do is impressive. God I love that sound.

 

[oldpink]

We had a what we called a CIWS (Close-In Weapon System) on the fantail of the Knox class frigate I served on.
I had no video camera, but I did tape the audio of it firing, along with our 5"/54 caliber gun.
Makes me nostalgic just thinking about it.

 

[Birds Away]

The big inflatable target they are launching off the fantail is known as a killer tomato.

 

[Nazgul]

I was in the MarDet on a carrier in the 70's. Watched the F14 Tomcats and their 20 MM Gatling doing live fire when on the USS JFK. We towed a target behind, they would roll in, first you saw the smoke from the guns, then the impact of the rounds, finally heard the guns. It was all out of sequence.


Neat, and they never missed.

Don

 

[oldpink]

The big inflatable target they are launching off the fantail is known as a killer tomato.

Ayup
The only time that we fired out MK42 (5"/54 caliber gun) in local control (no gun director) was with a tomato.
Sadly, I wasn't sitting in the bubble of Mount 51 on that particular day.

 

[Birds Away]

On my last cruise when the small boys would do a gunex the CO of the carrier would kick out a killer tomato so he could play with his cheese wiz. He hated to be left out.