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The entire airplane is that system. It has nearly the same gun, 20mm in both cases. It has fancy radar. Basically, a modern fighter plane is a flying CIWS, if
by burfog 6y ago
The entire airplane is that system.
It has nearly the same gun, 20mm in both cases. It has fancy radar. Basically, a modern fighter plane is a flying CIWS, if it has the software to do so.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Basically, a modern fighter plane is a flying CIWS, if it has the software to do so. No, it's not, because it can't change targeting axis fast enough; you'd have to have a turret mounted gun plus software, which is simply not feasible for a fighter. Also, a major surface warship can afford to expend a lot more weight of ordnance defending against a single missile than a fighter can without sacrificing whatever mission it was protecting itself to accomplish.
- burfog 6y agoTurn rate of a CIWS varies from 50 to 115 degrees per second. The F-22 can sustain over 30 degrees per second. The exact value, and the instantaneous value, are both classified. That isn't way off. Limits are in place to prevent pilot blackout, but since we're discussing an AI pilot here, the limits could be removed.
- raducu 6y agoBut how many rounds are usually expended per missile intercept? How many rounds does an aircraft carry? Can CIWS intercept a Mach 3 missile while on an aircraft flying above Mach 1 (a relative speed of Mach 4+)? Is it a good tactic to point your aircraft nose at an incoming missile? Why hasn't this been done already?