• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Compared to ciws, cram, phalanx it’s pretty expensive sure but it’s also less vulnerable to saturation by dumb weapons than any of those others.

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        10 days ago

        Ciws no matter how good so long as it’s a single gun can only intercept a single target at a time. Ciws saturation is literally more than one.

        A single iron dome launcher can intercept 20 from any launcher and track and engage 36 from any one radar iirc.

        Low angle saturation is the weakness of any rocket/artillery interceptor, and depletion issues go the same with any weapon system.