You may have served, but think about it. How many people on board know where a launched missile is going?
As far as most sailors know, they were on a training excercise at the same time this happened. Not one sailor has said they saw the explosion from their ship.
I think it's safe to say that when a ship fires a missile then everyone onboard knows when that happens. The noise and vibration would guarantee that.
As far as most sailors know, they were on a training excercise at the same time this happened.
Again, to believe that the Navy accidentally shot the 747 down you first have to believe that the Navy is so unbelievably stupid as to conduct live fire drills in the middle of one of the most densely populated commercial aircraft routes in the world. Are you really suggesting they're that dumb?
And no one noticed a missing fully armed and operational SM-2 missile?
Or that no one on the ship put two and two together that they launched a supposed training missile at the exact time people susceptible to believing conspiracy theories claimed the navy shot down an airliner?
I should ask if you served. How much do you know about how the navy operates? The things people have been suggesting on this thread and similar ones seem to be from people who have no experience with what they are speculating about. I'm not trying to be insulting. It just seems that the people who are most certain about what happened are the people who don't know what they are talking about.
Anyone here know of someone who has actually launched a missile from a Ticonderoga cruiser or Arleigh Burke destroyer? Those are the guys you need to talk to.