[sukhoi-30mki]

HMS Sheffield was hit by an Exocet missile fired by the Argentinian air force on 4 May 1982 and sank while being towed to safe water. Photograph: Pa/PA Archive/Press Association Ima

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

A French Exocet missile, sold to Saddam Hussein, hit an American destroyer or cruiser in international waters in the 1990’s and killed over a dozen sailors. Don’t remember whether it was the USS Vincennes or not.

The French, like a whore, sell to the highest bidder.

I’d steal their missiles and fire them back at their ships just as a remember about doublecrossing U.S.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Why are all the interesting articles from Brit publications these days? Even a pinko rag like THE GUARDIAN?

[Hardraade]

It’s not smart to build your warships like tinderboxes. It’s not that the exocet is such a miracle tool.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Jack Higgins wrote "Exocet" in 2010. He claimed the novel was based on history.

"The classic Jack Higgins thriller

In the hotly contested Falkland Islands, an underground struggle rages between Argentinean agents seeking to buy black-market Exocet missiles and the British officials who will do anything to stop them.

British intelligence dispatches two operatives to prevent the spread of the state-of-the-art weapons, and the odds are stacked against them. Tony Villiers and Gabrielle Legrand must overcome their complicated past and take down the international arms dealer at the center of the conflict before two nations are brought to their knees."

Maybe he was right.

[bmwcyle]

This is better.