So two questions I would ask
how the submarine determines what direction to point the missile in ?
Feed of information from other ships in the 'fleet'.
what use is a missile that cannot be controlled to the target?
It didn't say it wasn't controlled, it said the sub no longer controlled it. Control may have passed to same 'ships' that fed it the info on which way to 'point' the missile.
But since I obviously don't know what I'm talking about then there is no point in asking that.
Quit saying things like that. I Thank you for your time in the service, and respect your knowledge and experience.
As I said, the sub missile theory is just one of those that COULD be true.
You say it could not. OK.
That leaves the other possibilities. Other than a sub fired missile, do you believe it could have been a missile launched from somewhere else ? A drone ?
Why wouldn't the other ships in the fleet just shoot instead?
It didn't say it wasn't controlled, it said the sub no longer controlled it. Control may have passed to same 'ships' that fed it the info on which way to 'point' the missile.
It said that a second ship was needed as a backstop in case the missile took off. That doesn't sound like control to me.
As I said, the sub missile theory is just one of those that COULD be true.
And as I've said such a weapon makes no sense. A submarine's best protection is stealth. Anything that hinders that stealth endangers the submarine. Using active sonar, sticking a mast up and using radar, shooting a missile where enemy aircraft are around all give away the position of the submarine and work more to the benefit of the hunters than the hunted.
That leaves the other possibilities. Other than a sub fired missile, do you believe it could have been a missile launched from somewhere else ? A drone ?
I doubt a drone. Anything that large that hit the airplane would have left debris behind with the rest of the wreckage. As for a shoulder fired missile of some sort, I have no idea. I was air force and not army, so my knowledge on missiles like Blowpipe or Stinger is rudimentary at best. So in closing I will say that have no idea what did cause the airplane to blow up, be it fuel tank or bomb or terrorist missile. I'm only sure of what didn't bring it down, and that's military accident.