Posted: 12/11/2010 5:18:24 AM EDT
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Rotary wing mounted 30mm canon that can fire into and through water to destroy naval mines. As my granny used to say, what will they think of next!?
http://www.as.northropgrumman.com/products/ramics/index.html 
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Quoted: Any more info? Quoted: Christ guys, it was obviously a typo. Fixed now. We're just yanking your chain.  Good thread really, it does look like an interesting system.  I thought that bullets dont do well underwater. Penetration distances, something to do with the density of water etc. |
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Any more info?
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Christ guys, it was obviously a typo. Fixed now. We're just yanking your chain.
Good thread really, it does look like an interesting system.
I thought that bullets dont do well underwater. Penetration distances, something to do with the density of water etc. If you read the article attached it talks about underwater performance and how they enhanced the bullets underwater capability. Pretty interesting. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Any more info? Quoted: Christ guys, it was obviously a typo. Fixed now. We're just yanking your chain. Good thread really, it does look like an interesting system. I thought that bullets dont do well underwater. Penetration distances, something to do with the density of water etc. It uses a special supercavitating round to punch through the water. Like the Shikval torpedo. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Any more info? Quoted: Christ guys, it was obviously a typo. Fixed now. We're just yanking your chain. Good thread really, it does look like an interesting system. I thought that bullets dont do well underwater. Penetration distances, something to do with the density of water etc. It uses a special supercavitating round to punch through the water. Like the Shikval torpedo. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Any more info? Quoted: Christ guys, it was obviously a typo. Fixed now. We're just yanking your chain. Good thread really, it does look like an interesting system. I thought that bullets dont do well underwater. Penetration distances, something to do with the density of water etc. If you read the article attached it talks about underwater performance and how they enhanced the bullets underwater capability. Pretty interesting. Duh. Thanks for the hint. I still cannot get used to this new policy of not reposting info, just a link to the orig. file. |