They got plenty of warning. If they don’t understand a warning shot they either have bad intentions or they’re Darwin Award candidates.
Remember the U.S.S. Cole!
Target practice.
One killed, 3 injured
A little more info here...
http://news.yahoo.com/official-us-ship-fires-boat-off-dubai-1-155101441.html
“The boat appeared to be a civilian vessel about 30 feet (9 meters) long and powered by three outboard motors. Similar boats are used for fishing in the region, though Iran’s Revolutionary Guard also employs relatively small, fast-moving craft in the Gulf.”
What I do not understand is with what did they use to fire?
USNS ships are owned by the US Navy but are civilian manned vessels. Can anybody explain this? They are not armed vessels, unless you want to count the pistol in the Master’s safe.
If that story holds up, we will be OK.
We can't risk another "Cole" incident where a small boat drilled one of our ships and killed 17 of our service people and injured many more. - Tom
Comment on my post above: Either this is a USS ship or the Navy has started to put Navy armed guards aboard its USNS ships. Something of which I would whole heartedly approve. But it is highly unlikely the the civilian crews on USNS vessels would be allowed to man 50 cal machine guns. I admit I have been out of the loop for a few years.
Probably civilians out fishing, who didn’t get the .50 cal. message.
In that part of the world, to approach a naval vessel the boat operator is either stunningly stupid, or a terr perp.
I wish they’d sent the piece of crap to Davy Jones’ locker in a ball of napalm. Gettin’ really tired of these ragheads pullin’ USS Cole style attacks.