PLAN close in weapon

Blitzo

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I'm afraid that the ammo will run out with a single press of fire. That raises a question: what happen if second threat close in?

Presumably the ammunition capacity of any operational system (either version) would be enhanced to enable the mount to make use of the greater rate of fire or sustained duration of fire.

And presumably any such mount would not be the lone CIWS system on a ship (either another mount, or another HHQ-10, or a VLS based medium range SAM).



So to answer your question -- it would be dealt with in the same way as any other contemporary CIWS configuration on a ship.
 

The Observer

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Will the new gatling enough to counter hypersonic missiles though? After all, it still uses the same 30mm rounds, just with higher RoF.

That round still has the same limited range, so even if the intercept is successful thanks to increased RoF, I wonder if the missile wreckage's momentum alone is enough to cause serious damage.
 

Skywatcher

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Will the new gatling enough to counter hypersonic missiles though? After all, it still uses the same 30mm rounds, just with higher RoF.

That round still has the same limited range, so even if the intercept is successful thanks to increased RoF, I wonder if the missile wreckage's momentum alone is enough to cause serious damage.
That assumes the missile's warhead or remaining fuel didn't detonate from all that shrapnel.
 

The Observer

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That assumes the missile's warhead or remaining fuel didn't detonate from all that shrapnel.
Does that makes much of a difference though? I think If the intercept distance is close enough, even if the missile detonates it will still cause enough damage by turning itself into a gigantic buckshot. At the very least, I think radars, ECM/ESM, SATCOM, and other sensitive equipment will be degraded because of that.
 

Skywatcher

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Does that makes much of a difference though? I think If the intercept distance is close enough, even if the missile detonates it will still cause enough damage by turning itself into a gigantic buckshot. At the very least, I think radars, ECM/ESM, SATCOM, and other sensitive equipment will be degraded because of that.
That in turns depends on exactly how big the warhead was, and how much fuel was left at time of interception (if its like a couple hundred liters of liquid fuel detonating a kilometer or so out, most of the ship's electronics should be fine), and the shrapnel from detonation would most likely be omni directional, not focused on the direction of the ship.
 
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