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Norwegian F16 jet shoots up control tower, officers inside
RT.com ^
| 25 Apr, 2016
Posted on 04/25/2016 12:36:50 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
The Norwegian Air Force has been left feeling awkward after one of its F-16 jets on a drill mistakenly opened fire on a control tower with three officers who were inside at the time of the mock attack. An investigation has been started into the grave error, which took place on Tarva, off Norways west coast, AFP was told by military spokesman Captain Brynjar Stordal. Astonishingly, no one was injured in the incident.
On April 12-13, two F-16s were performing a mock attack on an enemy station on the uninhabited island, when one of them mistakenly opened fire on the control tower with its M61 Vulcan cannon, capable of making Swiss cheese out of metal and concrete at 100 rounds per second.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aerospace; controltower; jet; norwegian; shoots
To: StCloudMoose
“Goose, it is time to shoot up the tower...”
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:38:11 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: StCloudMoose
Pilot: Sorry.
Tower: We’re lucky you didn’t kill us!
Pilot: Well excuuuuuuuuse me!
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:38:56 PM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: StCloudMoose
I did a lot of work with the Norwegian military and they are a goofy bunch (in a good way). They like to joke and enjoy some pretty extreme and/or tastteless ones. I can imagine some pilot thinking it would be a real hoot to buzz the tower and open fire thinking his weapons were not loaded. Ooops!
Can't say it went down that way but my initial reaction was that.
To: StCloudMoose
Tower on target:
Permission to engage:
Engage:
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:41:22 PM PDT
by
bunkerhill7
((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
To: StCloudMoose
GOOSE: No, no, Mav, this is not a good idea.
MAVERICK: Sorry, Goose, but it’s time to strafe the tower.
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:46:30 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: StCloudMoose
Probably a “spotting” tower to tell the pilots where the bombs and bullets are hitting.
Not like a control tower at LAX.
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:52:57 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: PLMerite
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:53:36 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: StCloudMoose
GOOSE: "You did what Mav? Oh nah you didn't! Oh man!"
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:53:53 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
To: StCloudMoose
“Tower to Ground: Permission requested for change of shorts...”
To: StCloudMoose; SaveFerris; PROCON; FredZarguna; mylife; Lil Flower; Larry Lucido
**I can’t take this anymore! I don’t want to hear how interesting the change with the hole in it is!**
Maybe their money has a hole in it because Norwegian Air Force fired up the their mint?
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:56:29 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
To: Gamecock
Note that it was the F-16 doing the shooting.
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posted on
04/25/2016 12:59:28 PM PDT
by
KingLudd
To: blueunicorn6
Probably a spotting tower to tell the pilots where the bombs and bullets are hitting. I bet they told them.......................
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posted on
04/25/2016 1:02:56 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
To: StCloudMoose
They sure it wasn't M&M Enterprize?
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posted on
04/25/2016 1:03:22 PM PDT
by
Mat_Helm
To: StCloudMoose
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posted on
04/25/2016 1:10:48 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: StCloudMoose
Some days it is good to be a lousy shot.
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posted on
04/25/2016 1:17:58 PM PDT
by
TYVets
To: KingLudd
Note that it was the Norwegian Air Force flying the F-16.
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posted on
04/25/2016 1:26:02 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
To: StCloudMoose
MAJOR Awww $#!^
My unit, the 268th Attack Helicopter BN made national news when we toasted a sheep herder's Silverside trailer at Yakima during annual gunnery in 1986 or '87.
The gunner, a CW2 said in an interview "We were expecting a CONNEX container but when we got secondaries (explosions from the propane tank) we knew we had a major Aww shit on our hands"
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posted on
04/25/2016 3:18:53 PM PDT
by
Feckless
(The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
To: 2banana
oooh sh!t... tooo damn funny
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posted on
04/25/2016 4:17:55 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
To: Feckless
I think I remember that. Good shooting. Glad you didn’t aim down at the Tri-Cities.
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posted on
04/25/2016 4:26:01 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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