C-RAM: Oh Look! A CIVILIAN airliner 😨☠️

#shorts #cram #CounterRocketArtilleryMortar

This barrage of deadly bullets comes from C-RAM. It is a land-based Phalanx Weapon System developed by Raytheon to Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar shells. It uses a multitude of advanced sensors and systems such as Ku-Band radar, forward looking infrared, sophisticated thermal imaging and computer systems to automatically search, track, make kill assessment, prioritize, and lock a target in only 5 seconds. It has a 6-barrel, 20 mm Vulcan Gatling cannon that fires at 4,500 rounds per minute to destroy incoming targets within a 1000-meter effective range.

C-RAM can be mounted on a trailer or the rear-side of the Oshkosh truck for mobility. The first C-RAM was deployed in Baghdad in 2010 in order to protect the Green Zone which is where the American embassy resides. It could successfully destroy 70 to 80% of the incoming rockets and mortars, thereby proving its capacity as a defensive system.

Each C-RAM costs 10 to 15 million dollars, but with such massive firing rate, it comes at an operational cost of 30 to 60 thousand dollars to engage a single target.

[ian-blum]

When you unlock that final upgrade in a tower defense game

[Yoekko-ngbn]

"What the fuck?"
- Sun Tzu

[capitalcoffee]

Ah yes, it's the "Fuck everything in that general direction"

[Tzenpes]

"sir, there's enemy in that direction"

"Roger, removing that direction"

[Belisarius]

If you think that is a lot of bullets keep in mind only every fourth bullet is a tracer round.

[QTOP]

As an American citizen I should have the right to own a C-RAM

[olivierp.samvame]

Raytheon: I'm an engineer. I solve practical problems.

[Wintercourse]

The wizarding world has grown real quiet since the release of this video.

[aaronmartin]

Back when I was in the Navy, we called it R2D2 with a hard on.

[oddball]

"we need footage of CRAMs in action"

* Boots up Arma 3 *

[neilmcneill]

Love how half the clips in this video game are from ArmA

[SLTYMILK]

Finally, a decent home defense weapon

[BreadBoys]

"this costs $60k per engagement"

taxpayers: 👁️ 👄 👁️

[SergMS]

"Spy wont be sappin mah sentry with this one"
-Engieneer TF2

[YouTubeEnthusiast]

"These shits are cool af"
-Sun Tzu

[Loganwym]

Btw every 5th bullet has the red glow, so it shoots 5x as many bullets as you just saw

[symus]

"It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon…for twelve seconds.”

[alexmills]

The lighter weight version is the CWIS and I was just curious about a pickup truck mount, but it would weigh something like 8 tons so you need a short body dump truck to carry one around on the road. As would be our right as Americans.

[alexandercross]

For the 2% of those who don't know the reason mini guns are called mini guns, it is because they are miniature Vulcan 20mm, i.e., the weapon pn this thing.

On an unrelated note, you should know that those tracers you see up there, that's between 1/5, and 1/20 rounds fired, so for every tracer you see it fire, there's between 4 and 19 normal bullets that you do not. That's why it costs so damn much.

[adityasoumyadarshi]

" I never said that "
- Sun Tzu