I love how most KZreadrs ask people to send candy or pictures of your car. Not Arthur he asks for Abrahms tanks Warthogs and small and large arms for the protection of his country.

@ttry1152

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. So. He is patriotic

@PhycoKrusk

2 жыл бұрын

We should try to convince him to go to Texas the next time he's about to take a vacation to the United States (it won't take a lot of convincing). If the finances work out, a day or two at DriveTanks is exactly the kind of vacation he needs.

@ttry1152

2 жыл бұрын

@@PhycoKrusk he has i think.

@PhycoKrusk

2 жыл бұрын

@@ttry1152 I know he's been to Los Angeles, but I don't think he's been to Texas

@riphopfer5816

2 жыл бұрын

@@PhycoKrusk I agree with this.

You're slayin' me over here! "you can go to sleep and wake up to brrrrt, and you know the enemy missiles have been destroyed so you can go back to sleep". Your perspective is priceless Artur, and yes they do have a land based model. Perfect for Estonia. I agree, we should just give a couple to Estonia, and 1 to Artur because it was his Idea!

Even if they gave them away, the recipients would have to afford to feed it. The dinner bill isn't cheap either lol.

@snugglecity3500

2 жыл бұрын

America will give estonia 1 of them with 2 minutes worth of ammo if artur loads each shell individually and by hand.

@rippah669

2 жыл бұрын

The bullets are tungsten or depleted uranium, so definitely not in the price range of almost any country

@minirambler4042

2 жыл бұрын

@@rippah669 The U.K, Australia… multiple nations use them. (not sure about Australia, which is my home country, but I think…)

@sicsempertyrannis3782

2 жыл бұрын

@@rippah669 Tungsten isn't really that expensive, sure it's several times more expensive than steel but it's still only like $3 per pound, more than worth it if you need to get through an armored vehicle which costs hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars.

@Gantali9305

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the Vulcan phalanx are soon going to be obsoleted by laser type point defence systems. No ammunition limit and Much easier to hit your targets considering there is practically 0 time to target and no distance drop.

When one of the CWIS fires the entire ship vibrates. I was in the engineering division. No matter where you are onboard you can feel and hear it open up.

@lasvegassecurity2958

2 жыл бұрын

Did you guys ever have it active when you were close to a flock of seabirds. Entire ship Field Day * 2

@olliefoxx7165

2 жыл бұрын

They look badass. I've always wondered what it was like on the big battleships when those 16 inch guns all fired at once. Heck, just one of the 16 inch guns firing would be amazing.

@ElementsRook

2 жыл бұрын

R2D2 with a hard on going hot is a mite bit disconcerting I will grant. I submit however it's more disconcerting when the BRRRRRRRRRT don't happen when it's supposed to happen. Looking at you seven on two

@bradleycarriger7873

2 жыл бұрын

I was a gunner's mate on a Cruiser (CG-65 Chosin). We use to laugh because it sounds like the ship farting. We use to have a lot of names for it. R2D2, Cheez-whiz, Ship Shitter, etc. It really is a badass weapon, but it is the last line of defense. If it goes off, you are nervous as hell.

@lasvegassecurity2958

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradleycarriger7873 like going through the Suez Canal

The army Air defense artillery uses them to shoot down everything from 60mm up.

@randomclipsmilitary9056

2 жыл бұрын

C-RAM

@Stew2130

2 жыл бұрын

Had a C-RAM battery within 100m of my quarters in Iraq. It was one hell of an alarm clock!!!

@Rashed1255

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stew2130 are u suggesting they shoot it daily to wake everyone up?

@Stew2130

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rashed1255 Haha. No, but I went from deep sleep to on my feet and wide awake the first time that thing went off!

@Rashed1255

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stew2130 perfect alarm clock then! =3

If you look at human military history we are really just finding better ways to throw things at one another

@DUKWAK

2 жыл бұрын

and to think... we were indiscriminately throwing 3 things per minute, 300 yards at stationary dudes grouped up in a field 160 years ago. Now we accurately throwin 6k things per minute at supersonic targets someone threw at us like it's no big deal... Honestly, gj human military, impressive progress you've made in 160 year span. y'all out here throwin things real good.

@PanManGuyDude

2 жыл бұрын

From throwing stones to robots that shoot metal pellets at an extremely high rates yes

Videos are one thing being on deck when they are firing PRICELESS-

@rednecksamurai

2 жыл бұрын

I got to see a couple fire as well. Only the warthog is a close second for the smaller munitions. Still have a soft spot for the five inch and seasparrows

@slightslice3120

2 жыл бұрын

I tried to explain that feeling to somebody once… you can feel your whole body vibrating😂

@McNasty_JP

2 жыл бұрын

Do you shit a lot?

@rednecksamurai

2 жыл бұрын

@@McNasty_JP it isnt that sort of feeling. the closest I could describe for CIWS would be sitting on the speakers at a metal concert during an epic drum solo. And even then it isn't enough. You could feel it through the nonskid and deck plating. But when the five inches went off it felt like someone smacking your whole body with an air cushion

These are the absolute last line of defense behind chaff, nulka, and other preventative measures that divert the missile before it gets close. A missile going mach 5 that somehow gets shot with CIWS is still a bunch of metal flying at your ship at mach 5.

@Gankhisprawn

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. You better hope you don’t have to rely on CIWS to shoot down an incoming supersonic missile, because that means everything else failed already.

@rjohnson2813

2 жыл бұрын

True but a slug penetrates more than buckshot.

@fubar9629

2 жыл бұрын

@@rjohnson2813 not to mention it probably wont be detonating inside the ship.

We had one on the ship I was assigned to to. The size of the drum hanging down limited the ammo to 1500 rounds. The FCs that worked on it said that was good for about 4 bursts. It was mainly intended for use against sea skimming missiles. One problem though, a missile traveling at mach 2 that was shredded into confetti suddenly turned into a shotgun blast; so you didn't want to be exposed on the deck.

Ah yes, R2-D2 go BBBUUUUUUURRRRRRRR

CIWS uses two radars. One tracks the target, the other tracks the outgoing rounds. Then R2-D2 crosses the streams.

My father worked at general dynamics in the 80s as a computer engineer. He worked on the competitor for the f22 as well as designed the tracking system for CIWS that you see in the navy today.

6:45 that's exactly 100 rounds per second 6000 rounds : 60 seconds = 100 rounds/second

@mikehawk486

2 жыл бұрын

@@konartist206 about 5 seconds.

@konartist206

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikehawk486 didn't have the link on hand for the meme so I had to edit

@mickieg1994

2 жыл бұрын

I'm kinda wondering how much each round costs, has to be a few hundred $ every second it's firing

@mikehawk486

2 жыл бұрын

@@mickieg1994 30$ per shell

@mickieg1994

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikehawk486 Damn, can't imagine the total overall cost of ownership on that thing, wonder if it works as a flyswatter?

I’m a CIWS tech on the USS Normandy. Just wanna say loved the video! Glad it was in my recommended :)

Usa: it's really simple you shouldn't mess with me, your guns go boom boom, my gun goes BRrRrRRRrrrrRRRRrRrRRRrRrrRRrRrrrrttt

@stefwerckx7336

2 жыл бұрын

back in world war 2 that was the germans to the usa in term of lightmachine guns the buzzsaw on the german side and the bar on us or the m1919

@stefwerckx7336

2 жыл бұрын

back in world war 2 that was the germans to the usa in term of lightmachine guns the buzzsaw on the german side and the bar on us or the m1919

@Lynn.knepper1280

2 жыл бұрын

Cyanide and Womble.

@acywei

2 жыл бұрын

​@@stefwerckx7336 1. mg42 was a general purpose machine gun, but was almost always used in the heavy machine gun role by the Germans. So it's direct competitors would be the m1919 (medium/general purpose) or M2 (HMG). 2. mg42s were found to be wastefully high rate of fire, causing them to not be as efficient in serving its role as a heavy machine gun. There is a reason why the M2 has withstood the test of time and the MG42 has faded away.

@OnceNorth._.

2 жыл бұрын

@@acywei see unlike the the Germans with there little mg42's America had freedom, and if freedom isn't having 5 50cal brownings on your tank with a 76.2mm and a small 50mm tank barrel then I don't know what is

Artur, i sent you an email about my Mother's passing in January & sent a picture of her with her Treasured Estonian KZreadr cup. Even with Alzheimer's, she always asked me to turn on your videos at lunch time. She was so very proud of the cup. Kind sir. i can never thank you enough for the joy you brought her. i, for one, will never unsubscribe, and those who do should be ashamed. You are a Great Man, Artur. Be Well, -trout

Hi I was early, glad to see you continue making vids even after a disheartening feasico lately.

The trailer mounted ones on Bagram were crazy

@olliefoxx7165

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, they put them on trailers for land use? Crazy

@crazy8ight680

2 жыл бұрын

@@olliefoxx7165 yeah to protect military bases and units. They are active quite often

@snoopy9292

2 жыл бұрын

@@olliefoxx7165 Yep. We would get a siren then a generic voice saying incoming. Then the sky would light up with their tracer trails. Was crazy.

@olliefoxx7165

2 жыл бұрын

@@snoopy9292 Wow. My uncle was in Vietnam. He said when they got done for the day he and his buddies would grab some beer and go on top of one of the buildings. Some night the Vietcong would mortar and fire rockets at the huge B-52's. They'd watch the trails from the rockets going toward the bombers. My brother was in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said some nights in Afghanistan they'd use their lasers to stir up the Taliban in the mountains to start firing and then they'd open up with their tracer rounds. I know it's lethal as hell and very serious but the videos I've seen look like fireworks in a way. Those badasses you saw look like streams of fire going into the sky. It's hard to imagine those are thousands of badass rounds enroute to do serious damage.

@snoopy9292

2 жыл бұрын

@@olliefoxx7165 Wow! Thank you for sharing those stories! Love that soldiers always stay the same in the stuff they enjoy and do. So rare to get to hear those stories today. And hell ya. It's why I still love fireworks to this day!

hearing this thing fire when i was in the Navy was incredible. It just sounds like bees buzzing for like 5seconds

I remember hearing these CIWS guns had 5 modes of operation: totally powered down; warm up mode; radar tracking mode only; active tracking of targets, but human has to press the fire button; full autonomous mode, the gun tracks and fires on its own

As always, you put on an incredibly entertaining video! Thank you. Keep up the great work, sir. (Also, when I was in the Navy, it was called R2-D2 with a hard on.)

'Phalanx' is pronounced with a long 'a' like Tina Fey. It's a Greek infantry formation, if memory serves.

@righty-o3585

2 жыл бұрын

Both pronunciations are acceptable

@Zseventyone

2 жыл бұрын

@@righty-o3585 not to me, apparently. ;)

@jordanknight336

2 жыл бұрын

I think one is a British pronunciation and the other is American

Good to see you back artur, hope everying is good in Estonia and you are safe and stable. Been missing the regular uploads!

1978 I was in my first year of life. 1996, I was in the U.S. Navy onboard U.S.S. Nimitz. Glad to see you're still putting out these videos.

Hahah. Yessss! Artur is here - So happy to get another drop from my favorite Estonian soldier.

Good to have you back! I was a CIWS tech 84-89 & I'm here to tell you, this thing is a blast to work on/operate!

there's a few raw footage videos you can find about the US embassy in Iraq shooting down incoming rocket using CIWS, its one thing to behold.

You should check out some footage of these things on land at night protecting US forces from artillery and rockets. 😁

@nicholasholloway8743

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, actuel footage is available, I like simple history, but it remains just that, simple explanation and graphics

1973 your mom was born ? I was 13 damn I must be getting old and I still act like a child sometimes 😂

@Foodbarrel

2 жыл бұрын

Dude….. your 60

@kimmer6

2 жыл бұрын

Damn...I was almost 21 by then. Time flies.

3:30 It was built right around the same time as guided weapons; with its search and track function it is, in a way, a type of guided weapon.

You’re always a joy to watch

Love your show you are such a pleasure to watch with enthusiasm out of this world.

We dutch have our own version of that. Its called GoalKeeper and it fires a 30×173 mm round, has a rate of fire of 4200 rounds per minute, its designed in 1975 and production started in 1979.

Amazing video keep up the good work

Nice video man! My father loved watching this he and his father, my grandfather were two of the head engineers at General Dynamics Pomona(Now called Raytheon) and he always referred to the Phalanx as “his baby”

currently the only counter measure to the CWIS is to fire such a large barrage of ordinance the CWIS couldn't possibly catch everything

Appreciate the shout-out brother 🤘🤘🤘

Love your humor man! Damn r2d2 is awesome

I love all of your videos and you inspire me. Lots of love from Tiskre Oja, Andread

That 30mm round u have looks so damn cool, im jealous.

@xxhowisuxx

2 жыл бұрын

You can buy them fairly easily my man. Though they're like $45 on amazon.

I was in the navy in the late seventies. I was told that if the radar for the ciws wasn't adjusted right for autonomous mode, that it would track seagulls. All you would see was feathers drifting toward the water.

HELLO good thing you're back to editing his videos !

When I was in 1st grade my mom came home from GD one day and gave me a dummy round from this “sea whiz” that was in 84? I could not believe how big this round is!! I still have it as a paperweight in my basement lol…She also showed me (A very public) brochure from work on the depleted uranium they used on the outside of the M1A1 to defend from incoming rocket/Motor rounds. the “A2” wasn’t even in service yet. she was in strategic planning land division not even in that Dept. This was in the early 80’s…what I’m trying to get at is…Imagine what the U.S military is using today?

All the patrons who doante less than 10 should just be on a list at the end of the video, Saying "People who donated less than 10 dollars: (insert names)" whilst everyone who donates more can be mentioned at the begining.

America's armament protocols can be summed up into 1 of 3 areas. 1: Can it shoot something bigger? 2: Can it become lighter and move quicker? 3: Can this spinning mass of barrels and computer guided firing programming bRRRT Any harder?

@adamshattuck1985

2 жыл бұрын

dats rite, moar dakka!

@aaronburdon221

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, that sounds about right. lol

@fubar9629

2 жыл бұрын

Yes yes and yes

@H_Hold

2 жыл бұрын

Comments I am pleased with all of you. Now if only we could find Tiberium and become like Nod but were a more libertarian society we just like new cool tech we can use to blow up, incinerate, obliterate, completely shred, reduce to atoms and above all else delete from existence. And yknow, being in a rebel militant faction for the purposes of freedom sound pretty fun right about now

@aaronburdon221

2 жыл бұрын

@@H_Hold Peace through power.

It actually shoots burst in the shape of rectangle.

The ad i got in this video was a youtube ad on which branch of the us i would join. I said navy, because this thing is a warthog`s best friends.

The reason depleted uranium is used is because instead of blunting upon impact of armor, it’s “self sharpening”, so basically it continuously sharpens itself when penetrating armor. 🤙🏼

The limited firing time is also a issue on the A-10. the 30mm canon only has about 12 seconds of firing time. So you line up a tank press the trigger for about .5 seconds the tank dies line up the next one.

After a long absence, 4 videos in a week. Welcome back, my friend.

CIWS sounds a lot like swiss cheese

@Miftahul_786

2 жыл бұрын

it also turns things into swiss cheese so makes sense..

@sneedmando186

2 жыл бұрын

🔺

@righty-o3585

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like Cheese Wiz

@dbropx3547

2 жыл бұрын

@@righty-o3585 at night with tracers it'll look like cheese wiz coming from R2D2

It was always autonomous. The manual "PSUM" or Phalanx SUrface Mode where you manually fire it directly at targets like small boats and slow moving aircrafts like helicopters was added with the camera system in the 90's.

The German Tiger Tank was almost indestructible when matched up to an American Sherman, but not to a dozen or more Shermans. The Phalanx* has a similar problem, they are so expensive to build and operate that most ships only has One or Two, they can be overwhelmed. *- Phalanx, for those that may not know, was the Greek Battle Formation that Alexander the Great used to conquer much of the known world at the time.

I was an FC in the 90's. An amazing system. They sort of glossed over some details. Top radar is search. Lower radar is tracking. This gun does not use linkless rounds, it cycles used rounds back into the ammo drum in order to keep the gun balanced. Linkless is used for aircraft system I think... And not sure about block 1B, but block 1A the operator station ( RCP, LCP ) was about the size of two mini fridges stacked on top of each other.

@andystewart581

2 жыл бұрын

Block zero tech...we were telling them in the 80's they needed a a camera on them. BPDSMS tech first

stay strong my Estonian infantry brother, US infantryman here.

This weapon is one of my most favorite memories of my time in the US Navy in the early 80s. When this thing goes off it sounds like a chain saw eating it's way through a garbage can from the inside out. I remember one afternoon when the gunners test fired at a drone being pulled behind a plane and someone forgot to set the stops to restrict the rotation of the gun carriage and it just kept rotating further and further until it started chewing its way through the ship's super structure. The way this thing works it starts firing at the largest thing it can find then as the target gets eaten up it moves on to eating up the the largest pieces of the remaining debris.

This was my favourite piece of kit to use when i was in the Royal Canadian Navy.

I actually make the turrets for the Phalanx! 😁 I've been waiting for this reaction!

worked on CIWS in mid 80's. our motto was "If it flies it dies" ;great system! US ARMY figured it was perfect for command protection against morters and misslles

I'm a retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer. I think the U.S. Navy could find a couple of CIWS systems in some Navy warehouse for Artur and his friends. I know he would make great use of them if the need arose. We could start a GoFundMe site to raise the cash, if we needed to buy the units. Thank you for making such a funny and educational video, Artur. I salute Estonia and hope that it has a great and prosperous future! 👍 (Just subscribed!)

Hey Arthur you should react to Uss New Jersey!

Hawaii uses a network of CWIS for missle defence.

Once I was walking through the carrier hanger deck between flight operations when the CWIS was test fired, I about jumped out of my boondockers, then watching the water splashing up in the distance. Cool but frightening when not expecting it.

If you like the Vulcan cannon, you should check out the videos where Black Rifle Coffee Company mounted a Vulcan on a Prius car. It's pretty awesome.

In 84' I was on the USS Alamo LSD33 anti air was WWII flack guns. Moved over to the USS Denver LPD 9, and I think we had an R2D2 on it. In 85' I was on the USS New Okinawa LPH 3 and I know for sure that we had an R2D2 on that ship

The Phalanx CIWS was nick named the R2 D2 because of the way it look's like the android that was with C3PO in the Star War's movie.

They have a portable version to defend bases they have self destruct rounds so they don't fall on the city around it

5:48 Watch out, Artur, don't wave that thing around! We want you back for the next video!

Just the sounds of the motors of the actuators moving gives me a little freedom chub.

There are three interesting things to know the Phalanx system. First it is a close in air defense, so it only have an effective range of about 1.5km and a max range of about 5.5km. so it is the last line of defense out of 4-5. Second they are testing a land based version, and third is it is mounted on many US ships. The Nimitz/Ford class carriers have 3, the Wasp/America class amphibious assault ship have 2 and the Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyers have one. A typical carrier fleet has 3 missile destroyers and if there is an assault fleet they could have 1-3 amphibious assault ships along with their own missile destroyers. This means a typical carrier group has usually 6 Phalanx and an assault group could add9 more Phalanx to a fleet. But they also have Aegis, THAAD, PAC-3, Rolling Air Frame, then finally Phalanx for defense... as well as anti-ship missiles and anti sub torpedoes and AWAX and F-18/F-35C to patrol and extend their radar systems and defense capabilities. The new AIM-260 is supposed to be a universal missile for anti aircraft, naval, ground, and even cruise missile. It might even work against income missiles targeting the carrier fleet and the F-35 has very advanced radar systems. This and the Helios could give a carrier fleet 7 layers of defense reaching out up to 1000km. Also understand that these ship are upgrading their radars and targeting algorithms all the time so they are constantly getting more and more effective. They are also testing the Helios laser weapon system to supplement the Phalanx as the Helios is VERY cheap per shot (less than $1). Currently the Helios is best suited for drone within a mile, bet they are supposed to go from 30-45kw to 90 and day and 200-300 by 2025 or so. By 2030 it should be deployed on most of these same ships with enough strength to down a missile, jet, drone, or light boat from at least 10 miles. This includes ICBMs. They are also looking at putting the systems in a cargo plane for testing as well as 4 mobile ground vehicles in 2026 and eventually a smaller version in the 6th generation fighter missiles defense in 2035. Initially it is to compliment the Phalanx, but it might replace it if it is more effective. With the low cost per shot they can test and train heavily with it. They tested the system on a ship and it worked so good they declared it operational and left it on the ship. Do to the Geneva Convention it can not be used to target people.

hahahaaha...but don't have a pew pew pew in the backgrounds. lmao!!! ( too early?? for that joke???) love your channel thanks again.

CIWS shoots 3000-4500 rounds per minute (3000 for surface and 4500 for air, which makes sense since there is a good chance the air target your shooting at is a missile and you kinda sorta want that shot down in a hurry). A mix between the gun design and rounds make those 20mm do the damage of a 30

so, the way i've heard it, is that "If your CIWS are firing, you're 'taking damage'.." hence, last line of defense, you dont want to have to use them, the ammo isnt cheep, and they're hungry guns.

You would like the Dutch Goalkeeper CWIS. It uses the same gun as the A-10.

It was originally designed only to fire at high speed inbound targets. Redesigned later because it had problems it couldn’t engage helicopters. After USS Cole incident it was made man controlled by a joystick and can now track and engage anything.

It’s last line of defense because 2.5miles is close combat for ships with cruise missiles. That being said, I too would like one for my room.

@ArturRehi you need the Centurion ,..it’s the Phalynx CWIS for the Marines , a mobile truck Mounted Phalynx for base defense which can be automatated or manually remotely controlled to take out in comming aircraft or IED stacked vehicles. Stick these on the Estonian /Russian border hill tops and no troops needed. 👍👍

hooked those up to some Artillery radars on FOBS and they also provided mortar defence, not alot got thru 😃

Not quite as ahead of the curve as you might think, Soviet Charlie-class subs used a guided missile that had very crude communications and coordination in the 1970s, the P-120. A few would be launched, skim the surface, then they'd start talking to each other. They would figure out how many of them there were, then pick one missile to go high and scan with radar while the others stayed low. Then they could prioritize large targets out of a task group, and assign missiles to those targets spotted by the observer missile. Not sure how well they actually worked in practice because, you know, Cold War. Not a lot of submarine combat, especially against surface ships. That we know of, at least.

I love your videos

There's even a land version for the army that mounts on a truck.

Smart Weapons The OSS had a radio remote steered gravity bomb, a smart bomb. It had a flare in the tail of the bomb so it could be seen better to the operator. In WWII.

*Kashten joins the game*

Artur, the US Navy replaced that rotating gun with a more accurate missile system, without spending too much bullets. Thanks for sharing your comments and reactions.

You know how hard it is to sleep through live fire drills all I hear through my head phones is brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt

RPG models makes a 1/35 scale model of one; won't take up as much room in your house, costs a lot less as well.

the A-10 got a new lease on life, with computer upgrades wing and engine upgrades, it will fly well into the future!

Fun fact: Not only does this system track it's target, it also tracks its outgoing rounds! It knows if they will hit or not far before they actually hits.

@victorwaddell6530

2 жыл бұрын

Confirmed . I was a US Navy Operations Specialist.

Artur, you are the same age as my son. Keep pushing along.

The outside of the A10 bullet is soft, so it sticks, and the interior will penetrate

The 30mm is artur‘s pride and joy.

Relatively innocent pirates: CIWS: So I started blasting

Estonia rocks! But you need a real 20mm CWIS cartridge for your shelf!. The projectile is plastic with 4 deep scores on the sides on an aluminum base with nylon turning band. Inside is a sharp tungsten penetrator with zirconium tip. The plastic projectile peels away shortly after leaving the barrel and the base and turning band are discarded as well. The penetrator is about 12.5mm and carries no explosive. The brass powder case is stamped ''Not For Forward Firing Aircraft'' because the discarded parts of the CWIS projectile would damage a jet engine. Also, in the 1960's and 1970's, experiments were performed with 23mm ammo. The narrator made a mistake saying 22mm. The Soviets also used 23mm but the US decision was to stay with the 20X102mm ammunition and improve its projectiles.

React also to the Goalkeeper CIWS

The army has a land version of CIWS, known as CRAM. it is the same basic thing. (GM3 - CG-65 USS Chosin)

I was 7 in 1973 boy this makes me feel old

Hyper sonic missiles. Hard to track hard to hit.

if this thing shot for a full minute things would start melting

you would be surprised, anti-missile countermeasures includes interceptor missiles which are extremely effective and fast against single missiles theres no real counter for anti-missile countermeasures but one way to overwhelm the defensive systems would be to send a huge group of missiles at one single target which is a very expensive thing to do as you might guess so one destroyer is unlikely to be worth such an expense, a more likely target would be an aircraft carrier which travels in battle groups and has several CWIS at its disposal further increasing the costs of a huge missile strike and making the option less appealing than using hunter-killer submarines

the m61 btw is a rotary canon, mini-guns, fire normal rifle ammo or pistol ammo