re: #408 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Forget what thread, but several months ago, some of the ex-Navy Lizards were discounting the Phalanx, saying it wasn’t usable in a situation like this. Too sophisticated.

Also, remember that when the captain first jumped into the water, he was still too close to the lifeboat. That’s why I said, fire OVER the boat, as a distraction.

/then … after he got further away, or the Zodiac had picked him up ….

*insane giggling and salivation*

The modified the CWIS code to work on land against mortars in Iraq. It’s more software than hardware. That sucker not only tracks the inbound, it tracks the out bound rounds and calculates the differences and adjusts.

But yes, sometimes we’re over sophisticated and forget the basics.