[mware]

Oh damn! Did they have that tech back then? Pierre Salenger said it was friendly fire.

[DugwayDuke]

mware wrote: “Oh damn! Did they have that tech back then? Pierre Salenger said it was friendly fire.”

Red Badger wrote: “TWA 800..................”

TWA was over 13,000 feet. This weapon doesn’t have that kind of range. Besides the friendly fire theory has been debunked many times.

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS

[Yo-Yo]

Oh damn! Did they have that tech back then? Pierre Salenger said it was friendly fire.

Yes, they had the tech back then, but at the altitude TWA 8 00 exploded was much higher than the effective range of the CIWS.

The most logical explanation (translation: the one I tend to believe) is that someone from a civilian boat launched a MANPADS missile at the 747.

We were passing out MANPADS missiles to the Afghan rebels during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, so there were quite a few of them on the black market at the time.