re: Baghdad airport being attacked by rockets. Phalanx doing work

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Those were explosive “flak” type rounds. Those were not just lead. Unless every one of those rounds found a rocket. Rewatch it.

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You are correct. I had to look it up because I know the Navy's version just uses kinetic rounds, but the land-based version of the CIWS apparently does use an explosive round. That's also a light armor penetrator. That's also a tracer. That's also an incendiary round. That also has a self destruct feature so the rounds don't fall on things downrange.