> while it's unlikely that this will allow the aircraft carrier to regain the place it once held The very first thing I thought after all that waxing poetic ab

> while it's unlikely that this will allow the aircraft carrier to regain the place it once held The very first thing I thought after all that waxing poetic about destroying a $2M missile with a $20,000 slug was, "OK, now what happens if the enemy launches a couple missiles at the same time?" And heck, while we're at it you probably don't need such sophisticated guidance equipment if you aren't perching all your eggs on top of one rocket. . . so can this thing achieve a high enough rate of fire to put even a tiny little dent in a large salvo of cheap missiles?