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To: Jeff Head
Good morning.

It looks like the Phalanx is forward while the missile came in from aft and hit the stern.

The Iranians or Chinese who fired it had done their homework it seems.

Michael Frazier
46 posted on 07/15/2006 8:57:08 AM PDT by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: brazzaville

Exactly, as I have stated several times on numerous thread. It came in from the aft side, low and fast. But the Barak missile system, which this ship is equipped with two 32 cells of, should also have been able to engage and take down this missile. I do not know if any were launched. My guess is that it ame in very low, and they had little time to respond and for some reason, their data linked assets were either not operational or also missed the missile.


89 posted on 07/15/2006 9:45:00 AM PDT by Jeff Head (God, family, country)
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