Anti-mortar gun in Iraq

Mortars & artillery are a problem for the Green Zone in Iraq - DoD developed a land-based version of the US Navy's Phalanx anti-missile system for this. Officially it's known as C-RAM, but it's also called "R2D2" by some... videos of it on Youtube are.. interesting. Someone described it as being very LOUD - like your dentist using a chainsaw:

C-RAM Shot in Iraq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5mQk-q6Uv4

CRAM during Mortar Attack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94BRkbFbITY

Phalanx (CIWS) Block 1B LPWS Testing and Firing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgpQBZF2sZQ

Navy version videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4hA8IqSC58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2R4XAz193U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWS-z2hwM14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18G5ycZf-rc


For more Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) background, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-RAM

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/cram.htm