>take a couple of these babies >put them on a rail that goes from bow to stern, one each for port and starboard >remove radar and add a cabin for an operator >give it night optics and an electric motor to move up and down the railsYou have now a fast moving, rapidly deployed, easy to use, discreetly armored turret fit for big civilian vessels like tankers, cargo ships and cruise ships, with high rate of fire and able to shred a corvette to smithereens at 10 nautical miles.
>>64437041the first time this thing takes a little bit of damage it'll be useless like tits on a bull. try again.
>>64437041what is the benefit over a M2 ? or several M2 around the ship ? It would be significantly cheaper
>>64437064BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTThat's the benefit.
>>64437041>20mmwe can go bigger
Is it cheaper than a handful of mercs formerly dishonoured discharged marine dropouts armed with a shitty cold war era m16 and a pimped glock? I think not. A heavy duty marine gatling cannon on rails costs more than the entire crew's yearly salaries combined and it is overkill against a bunch of somali niggers with aks
>>64437041REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>64437041Anon, the engineering side of strapping guns to civilian vessels has never been the problem. It's been the political and economic side of militarizing civilian vessels.
>>64437104Goalkeeper requires deck penetration for it's ammunition storage and integration with ship systems. Phalanx CIWS is self-contained and can be bolted on just about anywhere
>>64437041Just use a Mk38 25mm Bushmaster. They can be remotely aimed using it's EOTS or manually operated by a gunner.
>>64438049My only critique is that it needs an LCD display so the thermal camera can be used under local control.
>>64437041Why would you need a rail? The things turn, you know.
>>64437041>arrested in the next Indian port for illegal machine gun possession >sentenced to spend 20 years in the hole filled with poo
>>64437041Now your civilian vessel is a military vessel. And given that it's not part of any nation's official navy, it's basically a pirate vessel. And it needs special permission to enter a port, one that cargo ports won't grant.Or maybe you have a floating platform crane in int'l waters that the vessel docks at to have the weapon lowered on and off. So now you've added 2-4 days to your round trip. Not to mention the cost of maintaining a network of these platform near important shipping lanes. Of course docking at this platform in heavy seas is nearly impossible and doing the operation in a large swell is very unsafe. So your full cargo ship is waiting around for the sea to be calm enough.It's almost as if you have a boner for dakka and are just looking for ways to put more dakka into the world.
>>64437041just give letters of marques to retired boomer sailors and mercenaries. a fleet of 200 small yachts can clean the atlantic and pacific of all chinese vessels
>>64437041Make the operators little people only and we got ourselves a contract.
>>64438328Wdym, just use two ships and a tender to transfer them no need for some off shore platform
>>64438358You still have the problem with heavy seas adding days to your trip times.
>>64438358Then just get an escort ship at that point?
>>64438358This is what they do only instead cannon its just merks with rifles.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/10/pirate-weapons-floating-armouries
>>64438609>Option A: trip may be delayed a few days due to heavy seas, may even have to send the other ship or tender in to port to get supplies>Option B: head may be sawn off to be used as onahole by piratesI mean it's kinda a judgement call but so are a lot of things in life>>64438617What do you mean, by paying off a Navy? Otherwise they'd just have the same problem with docking.
>>64438756>head may be sawn off to be used as onahole by piratesIf you've got cargo valuable enough to protect with Phalanx, you've got the money to hire 6 drug addict/child abuser and or sex tourist mercs to sit on you boat with an Assault Rifle 15 and their daddy's fawty faive sunneh. Pirates don't attack ships that attack back. They attack ships that don't.>b-b-but if a ship is protected that means the cargo is valuable so it makes them all the more likely to attack!True, but pirates are not fighting for anything more glamorous than money and status, so they're not about to risk getting mag dumped by Sanchez O’Brien fresh out of Bangkok Port and high on meth who just wants his $3000 bucks so he can live like a king for a month in Laos.
