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Old 01-21-06, 10:38 PM   #1
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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
The CIWS has been used in combat; it was the one on an Iowa class battleship. It didn't hit the missile (the bullets hit another US ship ) but the missile was shot down by a RN type 42 DDG.
It hit the super-roc (chaff) fired by the Iowa. Normally, this wouldn't wouldn't happen, but Iowa fired her super-roc in the general direction of a ship which (stupidly) hadn't set firing sectors so CIWS decided it was a threat and blasted it.
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