Posted on 07/15/2006 4:21:36 AM PDT by Oeconomicus
Heck the Marines could take them out with Sea Cobras, before they are launced. If you wait until after they are launched, leakers are always a statistical possibility. But after they used them once, they'd then lose all we could find, along with anything that even looks like it might be a missile launcher or launch site.
Conversely, they might all go out and buy new little econoboxes, making more work for automotive companies.
Agreed, and from the looks of her, under her own power coming in to port, she won't be in there very long. Looks like she could have fired her other weapons even after the hit. Including her own Harpoons. I wonder if the Israelis have the SLAM, land attack variant of the Harpoon. I imagine we'll find out shortly. I once worked with a guy who had worked on the SLAM during the engineering design and early testing phase.
Take a look at the pics in Dio's post:
Gotta See This!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666600/posts
Search for "ship" and look at the pics there, purported to be this ship. CIWS is evident on the bow, in these pics.
Interesting all around.
Take a look in Dio's pic post; see link in my post just above.
Never mind, just saw your thread on the subject.
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