The 'Star Wars' robot that Thwarted ISIS-K missile attack on US planes: C-RAM blasted jihadists' rockets before they could hit Kabul airport targets
This is the US's sophisticated '
Star Wars robot' tasked with shooting down missiles fired by jihadist terrorists at Kabul airport - where the last American planes are preparing to leave following
Afghanistan's fall to the
Taliban.
Dubbed R2 D2 by troops - after the iconic Star Wars character - the C-RAM boasts a powerful machine gun which can fire up to 4,500 rounds per minute.
The Centurion Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar defense system uses radar to detect, evaluate and take out approaching missiles and can be controlled remotely. It can also rotate up to 300 degrees at 115 degrees per second.
It was put into action Monday to take down five rockets launched at Hamid Karzai International Airport by terror group ISIS-K - which was responsible for two suicide bombs at the airport last week which claimed 170 lives, including 13 US army personnel.
The Centurion Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar defense system uses radar to detect, evaluate and take out approaching missiles and can be controlled remotely. It can also rotate up to 300 degrees at 115 degrees per second.
The 'Star Wars' robot that thwarted ISIS-K attack on US planes: C-RAM blasted jihadists' rockets | Daily Mail Online
up! You don't think a Republican administration would have dropped the hammer on the taliban caravans the minute they started on the roads to Kabul? It would have been the "Highway of Death" part 2 like we did the retreating Iraqi army in the final hours of Desert Storm.
