Skip to comments.
FOX: Pentagon confirms SCUD fired as well as Chinese anti-ship missile and small aircraft
Fox ^
| 3/20/03
| Fox reporter
Posted on 03/20/2003 3:35:44 AM PST by Mark Felton
Fox news Washington correspondent says the Pentagon reports 3 missiles fired. Trajectory indicates 1st missile is a SCUD that was intercepted by the PAtriot
The 2nd missile was a Chinese anti-ship cruise missile that was not intercepted but missed targets and did no damage.
The 3rd "missile" was actually a light aircraft that crashed harmlessly in Kuwait.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-70 next last
To: Mark Felton
I don't recall ever hearing of a land launched version of this missile. I was in the Gulf during Desert Fox in 1998 and never heard of this during threat assesments, although Iraqi Silkworms always came up.
...particularly since the Navy at that time did not have an air-defense target missile that could fully replicate the supersonic, low-flying flight profile of the SS-N-22.
I was on an FFG in 1983-1986, we shot at Vandals, which were old Talos SAMs modified to a Soviet profile, but probably ASM not SSM.
41
posted on
03/20/2003 5:16:53 AM PST
by
GATOR NAVY
(avoiding the embrassment of forgetting to clear a tag that's inappropriate for my next post)
To: mach.08
You're going to have to make sense before you can make a point.
42
posted on
03/20/2003 5:23:52 AM PST
by
ez
(Advise and Consent = Debate and VOTE!!)
To: Coop; mach.08
I think mach may be trolling...hey mach-one lucky scud got 20-something troops in Gulf War I. Would their lives be worth $1 million to you?
43
posted on
03/20/2003 5:27:09 AM PST
by
GATOR NAVY
(avoiding the embrassment of forgetting to clear a tag that's inappropriate for my next post)
To: Straight Vermonter
44
posted on
03/20/2003 5:51:50 AM PST
by
Tommyjo
To: mach.08
You sound a lot like buchanan and matthews........which are you?
To: Mark Felton
But, but, but Saddam said they had no scuds! <sarcasm off/
46
posted on
03/20/2003 5:57:35 AM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: mach.08
You really expect a serious response to your pathetic post?
47
posted on
03/20/2003 6:00:34 AM PST
by
Redleg Duke
(Stir the pot...don't let anything settle to the bottom where the lawyers can feed off of it!)
Comment #48 Removed by Moderator
To: Salvation
They don't. It's all U.S. propoganda and lies. What did al Baradei say about allegations of prohibited weapons..."misinformation" put out by the U.S.? </sarcasm>
49
posted on
03/20/2003 6:01:57 AM PST
by
shezza
(Pay no attention to the scuds behind the curtain.)
To: mach.08
Barely an answer. How about explaining this line?
How are we going to test our might against a bunch of half starved refugees?
You're a troll.
50
posted on
03/20/2003 6:11:15 AM PST
by
GATOR NAVY
(avoiding the embrassment of forgetting to clear a tag that's inappropriate for my next post)
To: AmericanInTokyo
We are allowing the press to tag along this time. I am very leary of that. Those guys can turn the US citizens against the war in two seconds with their leftist propaganda. The first thing that goes wrong, they'll play up the futility of war and trash the military something fierce. We don't need second guessing on the battlefield, piped back home for domestic consumption.
To: Mark Felton
52
posted on
03/20/2003 6:15:31 AM PST
by
Tommyjo
To: Mark Felton
And that's just one target. Now, consider two, three or five of them headed at you at one time.
To: Thane_Banquo
Bl$x mi$$ed the mi$$le! His off $hore account wa$n't mi$$ed!
54
posted on
03/20/2003 6:21:29 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Stamp out Freepathons! Stop being a Freep Loader! Become a monthly donor!)
To: DoughtyOne
Personally I think just the opposite will happen. They will see first hand how our military operates. They will have nothing but respect for our professionalism and how we "play by the rules". The lies about our "terrorist tacticts" won't float now. Plus the reporters are having their butts covered by these men and women. It's going to be tough for a reporter to file hit pieces and then return to the people he expects to cover his rear. The old saying goes "keep your friends close, your enemies closer".
To: da_toolman; alieno nomine
Chinese nuclear capable, supersonic ant-ship missle fired at US Troops Ping.
56
posted on
03/20/2003 6:39:31 AM PST
by
phasma proeliator
(it's better to die with honor than to live without it.)
To: OK; Poohbah
I hear it has the nickname of "Aegis killer."
Yeah, the Aegis vessel must die laughing...
57
posted on
03/20/2003 6:47:25 AM PST
by
hchutch
("But tonight we get EVEN!" - Ice-T)
To: Lost Highway
During the Vietnam war, the communications weren't two way. At least they weren't instantaniously. Today if those guys file reports from the field that are detrimental to our efforts, perhaps the troops will let them know what's what. During Vietnam they'd file reports from the field that were terrible, then get a free pass.
You just watch. Collateral damage is going to be covered with a magnifying glass. "Is this worth what we are trying to do..."
To: Mark Felton
This is all impossible. Hans Blix found no such armaments during his inspections, it's illegal for Saddam to own such things and because Charlie Sheen said so.
But seriously, we ought to keep a list of all the things we find that run counter to the global propoganda against this war.
To: Mark Felton
Clinton needs to come before the House on investigation of what he sold to China that is ending up in Iraq.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-70 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson