C-RAM used to intercept incoming towards us embassy

title says it all and at the end of the video part of incoming lands close to man filming


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a reply to: noscopebacon

No, it doesn't say it all. What embassy and where? Who fired the missile?

As a mater of fact, the video says nothing at all.

Look at the video in full screen on Youtube. I agree that you cannot see the full title from ATS. Anyway, c-rams are bad ass. I want one.

originally posted by: Antisocialist
a reply to: noscopebacon

No, it doesn't say it all. What embassy and where? Who fired the missile?

As a mater of fact, the video says nothing at all.

Agree.

Perhaps OP should add the description that is under the video

Video footage shows a C-RAM system responding to a rocket attack on the US embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad.

Link to News article
news.cgtn.com...

At least four rockets targeted the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Thursday. The area is home to diplomatic missions and is the seat of Iraq's government. Three of the missiles struck within the perimeter of the embassy. Another hit a school located in a nearby residential complex. An Iraqi military statement said a girl and a woman were injured in the attack without providing more details.

U.S. Embassy Baghdad
Al-Kindi Street
International Zone
Baghdad, Iraq
Phone: 0760-030-3000

It's an absolutely stunning display ...

a reply to: noscopebacon

That is amazing!
I’ve never seen one in action before, outside of a video game

I saw a film on YT about the C RAM specs-The thing is insane,

4500 rounds per minute/75 per second.
Tracer round each 5th shot-the computer targeting system uses each tracer(approx 14 per second)to "sight" the gun,making micro adjustments to the aim for the next shot.

The ammo used to in the OP video of the green zone explodes if it doesn't hit a target in the sky,so that it won't kill people on the ground-You can hear it popping as it does so in the video just after the part where the rocket hits the ground.

The vid I saw claimed the cost was over $2000 per second-in bullets alone.

I bet changing the magazine needs some kind of huge fork lift.

That is really cool video- however, per the news reports all four rockets hit something and nothing stated that the c-ram destroyed the rockets.

a reply to: Silcone Synapse

if remember correctly it is a 20mm gatling gun

its the land version of CIWS

the rounds can be programed to detonate at a certain time as well.


a lot going on in those rounds.


if you watch the whole video clearly they hit one and it the start of the video you can see an explosion in the sky.

what ever landed in that yard did not explode