Comments on: Remote Chain Guns for the Navy

By: 25mm Chain Gun | Neptunus Lex

25mm Chain Gun | Neptunus Lex — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:54:08 +0000

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By: Nadnerbus

Nadnerbus — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:56:11 +0000

Hope ships? Goodwill ships? Soft power ships?

This is a great anti-pirate gun. Take them out from a mile out, and don’t look back. No news story, no pity party, no incentive to keep up at something that is a badly losing proposition. And much more appropriately sized than a five inch. I like it.

By: James

James — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:52:17 +0000

I’m not sure we should install these guns. Doing so could be offensive and counter-productive to our ongoing efforts to deescalate conflicts around the world. Instead we should, as a gesture of our goodwill, remove such guns, so that others would not feel threatened by our warships….Warships? we should really change that name to something a little less offensive…

By: John F. MacMichael

John F. MacMichael — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:50:35 +0000

Interesting. This gun has been in use on US ships for some years now (I remember looking at one on a ship docked here in Portland for the Rose Festival back in the late 90s.) However, this new mount with stabilization and the optics should make it radically more lethal. No small matter when a well placed 25MM round may make the difference between a sunken ship or another dead jihadi.

By: SammHill

SammHill — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:35:59 +0000

I’m sure this is a good idea, but “the crew loves doing mundane things such as checking for channel bouys instead of firing on attackers”? If that were true, and I doubt it, that boat needs a new crew, not a new gun operating system.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:45:34 +0000

This seems like a great idea to me.