Flak CIWS capacity

Yeah in the past we need flare to make a time bomb~ So, do flak CIWS effective at intercept missile?

samchiu2000 CIWS, I tried pre-patch but failed completly

CIWS Close In Weapons System, It's CIWS not CISW

It does decently against standard missiles. At really too close for comfort range though. I use 1g 14.8km/s microflak railguns as secondary defense weapon after laser (Because counter lasers keep burning my lasers.).

Had just pit my drone with 3 microflak railguns against a missile schooner with other weapon except microflak disabled. It shot down waves of 20 missiles starting from 20km and 200m/s easily. And the drone annihilate the missile schooner in direct confrontation, even with most of its weapon deactivated.

Edit: Add flak spec: the flak is 1g 14.8km/s firing at 0.233s reload time. The flak shrapnel: 22x40.9 mg pieces of selenium

Nice, but I would still consider 2/20 hits to be a mission-fail for the defending ship. Those missiles *could* have managed a mobility-kill or could have destroyed a crew module on a manned ship.

For the mass and cost of those flak launchers a single (or five if you don't like cheese) Interceptor Missile would likely have better results.

I still love the idea though and would like to see it work. Battlestar Galactica-style flak shields...a man can dream.

(I did have a design way back that used around a dozen micro-missile launchers with *very* short range payloads. Called it Explosive Reactive Armor. It was heavy, expensive, and not very effective)

The problem wasn't that it cannot effectively shoot down missiles. It does shot them down very effectively with a few shots for each missile. The problem was the targeting algorithm. All three defense guns aims at the same target and shoot until the missile is destroyed before switching target. The time lost from waiting the bullet to reach missiles is a lot.