Originally Posted by
NAROBS
At some point the powers that be installed mortar tracking radar and gatekeepers at the airport. I think they helped, but were not always 100% effective.
Better than nothing as far as the Ukranians are concerned.
True, C-RAM Phalanx out in Basrah was never 100% in even picking up incoming and sometimes the quantity of incoming would cause the system to crash. Remember the 23 bangs over the fence one morning during the first week I was out there. C-RAM was swamped. I do also remember the time C-RAM hit incoming and popped open the rocket propellant casing. Round became a large spinning Catherine wheel, still at high sub sonic velocity, but being able to be heard like an incoming artillery shell. That was scary and had me crawled up into a little ball in my Stonehenge. Suspect any radar source would also see an AR missile coming its way.