[Always A Marine]

From the article: "After the warning, the rockets were fired from a position about 1,500 yards off the carrier's starboard side and in a direction away from passing coalition and commercial ships and the traffic lane, the official said. The rockets were not fired at the Truman and other ships, only near them."

The sensational headline is misleading. And nobody wants to bother reading the entire article to learn the boring truth.

[Jet Jaguar]

“nobody wants to bother reading the entire article to learn the boring truth”

It's a FReeper tradition.

[whistleduck]

Eventually those rockets will be fired in CVN direction, and probably from closer range.

AS to gathering elint data, nope—long ago gathered.