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Things like lasers and railguns are a whole different ball game. I've seen suggestions for railgun air defense systems that use bursting charges to scatter tons of high-velocity frag over a large area. Lasers promise to offer huge advantages for the Navy, and that's because warships have all the...

Back then, twin 40mm guns guided by such a sophisticated radar and electronics package would indeed have been a serious advantage on the battlefield. These days, SPAAGs as a concept are almost obsolete except for defense against helicopters. Most of the serious gun-based AA systems are almost...

Would've been even better on an Abrams chassis, so it could keep up. Apparently, an M1 Abrams-based air defense platform was something that was actually proposed, back in the day.