© Thales Goalkeeper

This is a movie about the Thales Goalkeeper defence system of the Dutch Navy.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• koninklijke
• marine
• dutch
• navy
• thales
• defence
• nederland

[mininow]

@geonerd AFAIK, missiles always go straight, turns just slow them down.

[geonerd]

I'd like to see how the various CWIS systems perform against a missile that is maneuvering as it approaches its target. Watching videos, it seems that many of the kills require the gun to spray bullets for a second or two before a deciding hit is scored. If the missile follows a wildly erratic path, will the gun be able to hit it before it goes BOOM?

[sh4k3r]

and then it runs out of ammo...

[k2477456]

@RonnieJamesable the kitty hawk is 96,000 tons...

[nus]

if you look at the distance 2:00 just amazing

[Caleb6543]

I knew it! Soccer IS war!

[RonnieJamesable]

@Cg23sailor kitty Hawk eh? big ships man! my dad was on Ark Royal which was only 40,000 tonnes. He was a "greeny" or an Ordnance Electrical Mechanic. We were talking the other day about the role of frigates and destroyers in a carrier battle group, and I said "the destroyers are primarily for air defence, dad, that's why you would have always been in company with Glamorgan or Devenshire"

"Really..?" he said ".... I thought they were only there for us to play football against!"

Sailors, eh!

[Cg23sailor]

@RonnieJamesable

Yes, I served aboard Halsey from 91-94 and her decommissioning, Later I served aboard Kitty Hawk.

Only opportunity I had to work with the Royal Navy was in the Gulf, A shipmate and I took a tour of HMS Southhampton and gave a tour of ours, while both were inport at Mina Suleman in Bahrain.

Well designed vessels.

[RonnieJamesable]

@Cg23sailor Yes it does. It uses a TPDS or Tugstun Projectile Discarding Sabot round. Meanwhile, 30mm ammunition for medium range Oerlikons is often TP/TPT Training Practice/ Tracer rounds. HE and HET in a 1 in 6 or 1 in 10 configuration. Were you on the USS HALSEY? I'm ex Royal Navy and worked on Goalkeeper on HMS CAMPBELTOWN & CHATHAM ( why have I capitalised ships names?, I'm not writing in a log, am i? old habits..... Worked with the USN a few times, good days in the PX in Rota, Spain.

[hardgrower]

4200 shots a minute, that is... 70 shots a second!