What? We’re firing on Poland now?
The ship allegedly fired warshots while it was tied up at the pier or out in the Baltic?
The charge seems a mite unclear.
oopsie. I think someones in trouble now.
presstv is Iran, isn’t it?
This article sounds like it was translated to English from Persian after it was translated from Chinese to Persian after it was translated from Polish to Chinese.
Be more careful!
The Poles are justifiably a bit jumpy at foreign warship in their waters that happen to start shooting at them.
A U.S. destroyer accidentally fired three machine gun rounds at a Polish city while it lay at anchor Wednesday, but caused no injuries and no damage, a Pentagon official said.
The crew of the destroyer Ramage was doing “routine maintenance” to the ship in the port of Gdynia when a sailor inadvertently fired the burst from one of the warship’s M240 machine guns, the official said.
According to an English-language Polish news site, the shooting took place at 10:40 a.m. local time Wednesday and the rounds from the ship hit a warehouse. The English-language news site Russia Today carried the headline, “U.S. destroyer shells Polish shore.”
American sailors cooperated with the Polish police investigation into the shooting, and then Ramage sailed from Gdynia later the same day, according to its original schedule. The ship did not hasten its departure because of the shooting, said the Pentagon official, who was not authorized to discuss the story and asked not to be identified.
The Norfolk, Va.-based Ramage was visiting Gdynia after wrapping up its participation in the international naval exercise, Joint Warrior, in which U.S. warships trained with ships from the navies of Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Norway and Turkey.
I suspect it’s just a matter of someone getting rid of some live rounds that were not used up during the exercise. Maybe some rule that they can’t be returned to the ammo storage space after having been loaded.
But I can’t blame the Poles for being jumpy, after Obama caved in to Putin on missile defense, and got nothing in return.
What’s this about? We can’t even attack Poland properly?
Shelled?? US Warship shelled Poland. It was three rounds from an M-240 machinegun, think updated M-60. Geez!
M240 is a light machine gun. It is a 7.62x51, or .308 round. 3 shots were fired accidentally, so it was not an act of war. It was stupid, and some sailor is likely going to get reamed in a major way for doing it, but it was not any offensive act.
Reminiscent of SMS Schleswig-Holstein.
Career ender there...
France and England immediately declare war.