Something like the Clan's enery based or the IS ballastic based anti-missile system on the mechs.

http://media2.foxnews.com/040606/040..._tobin_300.swf

I'm sorry if you have seen it.


Oooo, more things that seems Battletech in real life.

Well what ever site you have doesn't seem to load or is takin forever to load. However the Navy all ready has had an anti-missle ssysetm built up on all it's ships (dubbed the R2-D2) it's a 20mm Gatling system with a white domed canopy on top that is made to shoot down incoming anti-ship missles (which was also used "Hollywood esque" in the Steven Sagel movie ...god! having brain fart,can't remeber movie and I've seen a hundred times. It' where the terrorist take over the "Missouri" Battleship. Any way they "supposedley use the C-Wiz (AA Gun) to shoot down the F-18.

There is also a laser ssytem the military was working on to track and shoot down missles also. If this is in the "Clicky" sorry I just can't get it to load.

Anti missile interception or defense system have been with ships for a while. One of them is best known as AEGIS. Another is the Phalanx CIWS, which uses a closed loop control system. Yet another is the RAM, which is a kind of a small anti missile misisle.

It looks like a much scaled down version of the more traditional AMS on ships. Judging from the footage, I'd say it's ballistic.

Of course Fox, does what they can to make it sound like magic.

One thing that Battletech doesn't have much of that we see in the real world is decoys and jamming. CIWAS and the Rolling Airframe Missile are the two primary Navy hard kill missile defenses (excepting hitting the thing at distance with an Aegis-guided Standard missile) but putting a keeper cloud of chaff across the path of your ship is a good defense too. Don't think any flares or decoys would work too well for 'Mechs, but chaff might work. Of course, an optically guided missile or one that simply works on imaging in the visual spectrum would work pretty well against a target like a vehicle. It's not like with an aircraft that can notch the thing or corner-turn it.

Maybe that's why ranges in CBT and MW are so short? All combat equipment has some type of AMS so guided long range weapons are rarely effective. Could explain why Mechs and vehicles has an 186.66' range (14 game inches).

BTW cool news report. I'd like to see the 'Trophy" system in action.

I also think that this is a scaled down version of the CIWS. If I saw things right there was a small explosion on the vehicle launching the countermeasures. CIWS shoots out a 'wall of lead' towards the incoming missle on naval ships and is pretty effective, although not entirely. I'm going to review the video again to confirm my thoughts.

Ixnaydude

Well, I've viewed the video 3 more times and now fully believe that this is similar to CIWS the slight difference is that is uses a 'shotgun' effect to launch a wall of lead towards the projectile, whereas the naval CIWS uses a multibarrel machine gun to shoot that wall of lead. Actually, CIWS is a misnomer because, with the way CIWS works, shooting 1000's of rounds towards incoming missles, it handles better at a distance, i.e. further out - NOT 'Close-In' as it's name implies(Close In Weapon System). For Trophy, that shotgun 'spray' is better for shorter ranges. This is because of the fact that antiship missles and the like carry way larger warheads/explosives than antitank missles and RPGs. Regardless, those weapons cause a lot of damage and let's hope Trophy works as advertised.

Ixnaydude

BTW, if high tech weapon systems are something you're interested in, Discovery Channel has a series called 'Future Weapons'. It's a bit overdone, but the tech they demonstrate is generally interesting.

The Movie is called "Under Siege"

and this system looks awesome, though it still seems like a quick fire cannon takes the RPG down.

I got a buddy right now in the third Armor, and this would be a welcome addition to his Abrams.

Keep in mind that "Close Range" on a navle scale is measured in Kilometers

Ah, now there was a fun, stupid movie. They did something similar in 'Hollow Point', move of my most favorite bad movies ever. John Lithgow as a karma-subscribing criminal mastermind, and Donald Sutherland as a lovable psychotic assassin? Heck yes!

I finally got the thread to play. Here is how Trophy works.

The RPG-7 uses a piezoelectric fuze to detonate it's shaped charge. As most of you know, the shaped charge has to detonate within an inch or two of the armor it is hitting to form it's plasma jet and cut the armor. I bet dimes to donuts that the Trophy uses an electromagnetic pulse to overload the fuze and detonate the round early. It would work against various other munitions as well.

When you are defeating a missile or rocket, you pick a part of the kill chain that the weapon has to use and you attack it. It's like when we jammed the SA-2's guidance downlink in Vietnam. The Fan Song radar was hard to hide from, and the missile was very hard to dodge, but it was dependent on a guidance link to function. And that's what our ECM people attacked. In this case, if you can keep the warhead from detonating in timely fashion then you nullify the thing no matter how accurately it flies.