On my first deployment day 3 we were mortared at 3am and the c-ram woke me out of my sleep. If you have never heard this live it is the most terrifying sound I’ve ever heard. Over 10 vears later i still don’t sleep peacefully. If anyone has seen “War of the Worlds” with Tom Cruise.. this weapon makes the same sound the alien gunships made. Hearing the sound and seeing the red lasers streaking across the sky my first reaction was this is an alien attack before i knew about the c-ram weapon. You do not understand what it feels like to think certain death is minutes away due to an alien invasion and there is no one around you to inform you otherwise. The word traumatic doesn’t fit how terrifying that is it has to be another word to describe the emotion. Within 20 mins someone in theartre longer than me told me what was going on and i felt better. I’ve heard live fire 155 triple 7’s. I’ve heard an A-10 shoot it’s cannon. But in the terms of sheer volume of sound the c-ram takes the cake and not close. It makes a very erie echo every volley it sends down range.