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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
duuude... that WHAT!? Seriously Zunis for AAW? I know they used rockets for chaffing vampires but for shooting down aircraft?
I think they toyed with it in WWII but found it didn't work too well. They kept at it?
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We had them. Someone told me that's what they were for. I don't know anything other than that.
The only AA we had for sure was the dual-purpose part of the 5" guns - all four of them. One day during an excersize an A-7 came straight at us, maybe fifty feet above the water. By the time the guns could be brought to bear he had hopped up and over us. By the time they could be swung around the other way he had gone vertical and was out of range before the director could get a position lock.
Absolutely useless in modern warfare. In every mock engagement we had, whether aircraft or submarine, we lost.