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Acta Armamentarii ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (S2): 2-6.doi: 10.12382/bgxb.2022.B025

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Development Tendency of Terminal Anti-missile Small-caliber Gatling Gun Technology

QIU Zhiming, CAO Yuan   

  1. (Naval Research Academy, Beijing 100161, China)
  • Online:2022-11-30

Abstract: The terminal anti-missile small-caliber Gatling gun has the characteristics of high emissivity, good reliability and strong combat capability, which is an important link in the anti-missile combat system. This paper summarizes the development history and technical characteristics of the small-caliber Gatling gun at home and abroad such as Phalanx, Kortik and Goalkeeper, and analyzes various challenges including hypersonic speed, orbit transfer and saturation attack with groups of missiles in the terminal anti-missile operations. The development requirements for faster speed, higher accuracy, stronger damage and enhanced capability of sustained combat is systematically summarized. The development tendency of the terminal anti-missile small-caliber Gatling gun is discussed from four aspects, including the technology of the small-caliber Gatling gun with extreme rate of fire, the integration technology of ammunition feeding-reloading and ammunition storage, the integrated defense technology of terminal multiple weapons and the technology of small-caliber Gatling gun plus intelligence.

Key words: small-calibergatlinggun, terminalanti-missiletechnology, developmenthistory, developmenttendency

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