![]() If a player kills the driver while holding RB, they will enter the vehicle the moment the driver dies-and before the vehicle self-destructs. The glitch that allows players to pilot an Anti-Air Wraith is a timing exploit. ![]() This is why killing the driver before completing the glitch prevents it from working, and why the vehicle self-destructs when a player exits the cockpit. ![]() Even if they hit the missile, the intercept takes place sufficiently close to the ship that it may be damaged by the warhead explosion.Anti-Air Wraiths and, in Halo 3: ODST, normal Wraiths cannot normally be piloted because of a function Bungie attached to the vehicle: when the driver dies or exits, the vehicle self-destructs. Still, their range is sufficiently limited that they could engage a supersonic missile only at very close range. Their radar is quite advanced, simultaneously tracking the stream of shells and the incoming missiles, and finding the solution of where the two paths meet. These are rotating-barrel autocannon with extremely high rates of fire, although ammunition enough for only a few bursts. Major naval combatants have used advanced AAA systems such as the Phalanx close-in weapons system (CIWS) for final defense against incoming anti-shipping missiles. When operating in groups of warships, and especially when the group includes friendly carrier- or land-based aircraft, coordination becomes quite complex, and is encompassed by the general term anti-air warfare. Russian ZSU-23-4 radar-guided, self-propelled light antiaircraft gunĪ new niche is forming for counter-rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM), using autocannon, intended for point defense of airfields and similar targets, which can engage light artillery rockets and other weapons fired by irregular forces.Įarlier land-based systems, such as the Soviet 57mm S-60, tended to use larger, slower shells, with a slower rate of fire that was marginal against jet aircraft. The Russian ZSU-23-4 is still widely used, and is a serious threat to helicopters and slower fixed-wing aircraft. Weapons this light are effective only against modern transport helicopters attack helicopters are armored against projectiles of this size.Ĭurrent examples for land warfare are towed by vehicles, or self-propelled. vehicles, but not on the portable tripod used by U.S. 50 caliber (12.7mm) machine gun is mounted on U.S. ![]() Their effectiveness came from a man-portable pedestal mount, similar to the way the. In South Vietnam, the Viet Cong made very effective use of a Soviet-designed 12.7 and 14.5mm machine guns. Medium AAA, such as the Bofors 40mm, were fed with clips containing a few shells. The heavier World War II antiaircraft gun, such as the German 88mm more widely known for its antitank use, were loaded and fired manually, with individual shells. In most other countries, AAA was under the ground forces, although increasingly in specialist air defense units. Medium and heavy AAA was under the German Luftwaffe, and under a separate service in the Soviet Union. Still, several technical developments made it much more effective: lead-computing sights that used early special-purpose computers to aim the gun at the position it would be when the shell arrived, and the proximity fuze.ĭifferent countries put AAA in different defense structures. As aircraft flew higher and faster, sound tracking had too much delay. In the Battle of Britain, limited use was made of radar-controlled AAA. The original guns used visual sighting during daylight, and searchlights, coupled to directional microphones that tracked aircraft sound, at night. AAA played an important role in the Second World War, although it was not terribly effective in 1939 or 1940, until made part of an integrated air defense system.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |