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Denmark closes major shipping strait over faulty missile launcher
CNN ^ | April 4, 2024 | By Caitlin Danaher and Antonia Mortensen

Posted on 04/04/2024 4:33:45 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

Denmark has closed one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes over an activated but malfunctioning missile launcher on a Danish navy ship, the country’s military said Thursday.

The Niels Juel ship is stationed in Denmark’s Great Belt strait, the main maritime gateway to the Baltic Sea.

The booster on a Harpoon missile on board the ship was activated during a mandatory test on Thursday, and the launcher cannot currently be deactivated, the Danish armed forces said in a statement, adding that specialists are on their way to solve the problem.

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1 posted on 04/04/2024 4:33:45 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Another thread yesterday said a lot of young males are staying at home on purpose at their parents’ houses instead of establishing their own lives and taking care of their own housing.

So this faulty missile launcher story means two about “failure to launch.”


2 posted on 04/04/2024 4:44:32 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Navy Patriot

NATO readiness on display.


3 posted on 04/04/2024 4:45:55 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?action )
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

The Danish navy? That probably is their ONLY ship...and it is staffed some kind of perverts.


4 posted on 04/04/2024 6:40:02 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: hal ogen

The bad news is that Denmark has one of the more functional militaries in the EU.

In Afghanistan, they were with the Canadian troops in Kandahar. Not in the Northern deployments with no possibility of combat like the Germans and the French.


5 posted on 04/04/2024 8:08:14 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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