Posted on 10/02/2016 7:39:38 PM PDT by Chode
well..... its been a possibility for quite some time
we will see
when the Iran-Iraq war ran, over a million people died but the oil shipments continued through the war zone (Persian gulf)
we will see....(since I don’t know what will happen, ha, we will see).
Falkland Islands and an Exocet missile.
1980’s
That was a different story.
The way that thing lit off makes me wonder about the survivabilty of our littoral combat ships should they take ONE missile hit.
aluminium burns real good
The Houthi rebels need to be very careful about this type of attack least the Saudi led Sunni coalition will attack the Houthis.
Oh, wait ... the Saudis were already attacking them. Silly me.
Ping for later.
>Iranian-backed Houthi rebel fighters have claimed responsibility for the attack.<
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Missile could have been fired from somewhere in Somalia. You can actually see the lights in Somalia looking across the water from the port of Mokha at night.
>Iranian-backed Houthi rebel fighters have claimed responsibility for the attack.<
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Missile could have been fired from somewhere in Somalia. You can actually see the lights in Somalia looking across the water from the port of Mokha at night. This could result in $150/barrel of crude oil.
>Iranian-backed Houthi rebel fighters have claimed responsibility for the attack.<
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Missile could have been fired from somewhere in Somalia. You can actually see the lights in Somalia looking across the water from the port of Mokha at night. This could result in $150/barrel of crude oil.Somalian pirates could’ve gotten a hold of ship missiles.
The ship does not fly any flag.
You may thinking of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The Navy just announced in the past two weeks or so that its multi mission modular design was deficient and that they were scaling back on the total number of ships being constructed. The ships that are going to be built will be dedicated to single mission configurations. Part of the confusion may arise from the fact that there are two different LCS designs, one of which is a trimaran design.
The High Speed Vessel is a passenger and cargo catamaran ferry of Austrailian design built to commercial not military standards. It’s not a combatant; its role is intratheater logistics. They are lightly armed and would likely not have the detection and jamming system needed to defeat an anti ship missile. It is a successful design built in the US for both the Army and Navy.
By the way, this was a large missile. In the video, you can see the glow of the launch booster rocket as it detaches from the missile after launch.
Thanks for that.
I watched it and thought it looked like the Achille Lauro fire footage.
Closing the sea gates.
Well, because it was...
Some of it also was from some movies in the late 90’s. can’t remember their names right now.
http://www.janes.com/article/58194/uae-naval-vessels-using-eritrea-s-assab-port
sure-nuff
Ping
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