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2010-04-29 Iraq

AP source: US Navy has encounter with Iranian jet

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-04-29 10:11|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Deacon - any video of Phalanx tests on jet-sized objects? I recall seeing tests against the more typical targets - missiles, etc., but a Mig within 1000 yds is a pretty large object for the Phalanx to stop entirely.

Still, might be enough to reduce it to shrapnel, but why would the CV cut this so close?

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-04-29 12:42|| 2010-04-29 12:42|| Front Page Top

#2 I get worried when I see Iranian jet, Navy ship and NBC in the same sentence.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-29 13:16|| 2010-04-29 13:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't have any videos of Phalanx. The Iranian jet was in International airspace so there really was nothing the Eisenhower could do. Seems like a dry run for a Kamakazie attack to me.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-04-29 14:48|| 2010-04-29 14:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Would it be an act of war to shoot paintballs at the airplane? Counting coup, so to speak.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-29 15:07|| 2010-04-29 15:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Re #1 - When I was on active duty in 1972, my ship was one of the test beds for the Phalanx. We did a test where an F-4 towed a target for us to shoot at (and deliberately miss, so they could use it again). What I recall was that the Phalanx seemed to fill the air with bullets. Any target at 1000 yards would have been reduced to very small sized chunks of shrapnel.
I wonder also how close the shadowing F-18 was to the Iranian jet. Or was it just keeping it in its missile sights?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-04-29 17:54|| 2010-04-29 17:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Counting coup, so to speak.

Heh. Tag! You're it.

I rather suspect that no one in the CVBG was asleep at the switch and at the slightest sign of misbehavior a whole shitstorm of disapproval would be unleashed

Posted by SteveS 2010-04-29 18:40|| 2010-04-29 18:40|| Front Page Top

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