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Did you know? (Signaal is a Dutch company)

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A joint project by Signaal and General Electric, Goalkeeper is a close-in weapon for use against missiles and aircraft.  The system automatically performs the entire process from surveillance and detection to destruction, including selection of the next priority target.  Goalkeeper uses a dual radar system, an I-band track-while-scan search-and-acquisition set which hands off to a dual frequency L/K-band target-tracking radar for the actual gun engagement.

This system can track up to thirty targets, engaging the four most urgent.  It will minimize the salvo length to engage as many targets as possible and is thought to be able to deal with two pairs of sea-skimming missiles as little as five seconds apart.

The General Electric (General Dynamics Armaments) 30 mm (1.2") GAU-8/A seven-barrel Gatling gun used by Signaal is also used for French close-in weapon systems, including SAMOS and Satan.  It is perhaps most famously used on the US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt anti-tank aircraft.


<img src="http://www.xs4all.nl/~ervani/ervani_sig.jpg" border=0> <br><br>Thou Mortal Grunt did you ever hear the sound of the GAU-Avenger? now you know how death sounds