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

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Saves lives at the airport but kills an entire village 10 miles away when all that lead rains down. What goes up, must come down.

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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.

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