Easy hose off seats are extra

Very nice, unless they are shooting from the rooftop.

 

There is actually a newer system that has improved on this. It is called Trophy.
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Now that rocks...

 

Are both of those real ? im not saying there not, but damn.

Is that darpa system just a series of projectiles loaded along that strip up top with sensors ? hard to believe it can detect an incoming missle / projectile, gauge its speed and fire its own weapons to impact in that short of time and space.

Its absolutly insane how fast those systems can react. First detecting a threat, then once it confirmed it would have to calculate the incoming speed and to calculate an impact point for its own weapons. Id imagine its counter projectiles accelleration and flight time alone take up a massive amount of that time frame wich means the electronics just have to be that much faster to compensate.

I always thought those 20mm? phallanx cannons on naval ships shooting down missles at close range was nuts, but you had time to see those on radar from miles away even if it was 10-30 seconds tell impact.. these systems are doing the same thing in what 1-3 seconds total time ?

 

1-3 seconds is an eternity in electronics time. An electrical signal can travel around the world eight times in 3 seconds. Even a relatively modest CPU could probably poll an infrared sensor, run several thousand complex calculations and tell some projectile launchers to trigger within 100 milliseconds. Let's guess conservatively and say the heart of the system is a 100 MHz CPU (it's probably faster, but it's possible they're using something that slow for the purpose of reliability). Even a slow CPU like that can still complete 10 million clock cycles in 100 milliseconds. Many CPUs already have operations for vector math, so the calculations themselves will take very little time. I imagine most of the actual time is spent polling the sensors and launching the projectiles.