C-RAM defending from night mortar attack at base

The systems never worked for us so we kicked their asses off our COPs and FOBs....

If nothing else, I'll bet it made people piss themselves.

One was right across the street from us at Balad (Anaconda) in 2006. We sat on the roof and watched the monthly tests. I have video somewhere. They were very cool. We saw an AC-130 pop flares in response, which was AWESOME.

The only issue I have with the C-RAM is it set outside my CHU in Baghdad 2007-2008 and they would test fore the damn thing at 0200-0300 hrs ALL THE TIME! I do not remember it destroying a single rocket or mortar round incoming. I was told the clearance to fire was heavily controlled due to the aircraft in and around the Green Zone and airfield.

They are awesome... but, I don't think they worked well on land. They fired nightly, at VBC during the surge, but who knows if they hit anything. They sure looked and sounded "badass." I think it was an attempt to find a solution. I don't know if the Navy's version, the Phalanx, from which C-RAM was derived in a land based from, worked better. I suspect it did, or would not have been around since 1980. Seems like Vulcan of sorts... which went the way of the SGT York Gun. I believe hitting incoming rockets and missiles is not very easy.

must have been caught during the RARE times those things actually worked like they were supposed to.