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USA warship shoots down Iranian drone

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Was standing watch in Moscow when cable regards USS Vincennes shooting down Iran Air came in.

Had to call up the chain to notify COM.

Lots of shit can happen when you play cute.
 
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W54/XM-388 said:
Well you know with our other wars in the sandbox running out of steam, something has to be done to keep our patriotic industrial military complex well oiled with money and distract people from the stinking politicians....
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1. Repeal NFA

2. Gunsmiths to inspect and verify older equipment being phased out of the military. Think Kelly Blue Book for pewpew stuff. And sell to civilian market so .mil can use the funds to buy new stuff. That is what the US army did with a lot of ordnance after the Civil War and the Indian wars. Bannerman and associates being one of the top buyers.

3. Send troops to border full time. Complete with belt-feds, artillery and perimeter/area defense.

4. All extra funding to be used for medical and space research/long term safe human hibernation/spacecraft propulsion/exoplanetary geology. We as a species cannot stay in this cradle forever. Might as well get a peaceful, unrushed head start as opposed to running around like headless chickens when a city sized comet is found to be in a trajectory towards the planet in the next hundred years or so.

5. Everybody wins.
 
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Missile, Harrier or Helio?
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Hi,

At only 1000 yards away...they could have downed that UAV with all sorts of things but I am interested to see if they used some of the non-kenetic energy anti-uav weapons they have been outfitted with or did they use the tried and true Phalanx CIWS.

Sincerely,
Theis
 
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THEIS said:
Hi,

At only 1000 yards away...they could have downed that UAV with all sorts of things but I am interested to see if they used some of the non-kenetic energy anti-uav weapons they have been outfitted with or did they use the tried and true Phalanx CIWS.

Sincerely,
Theis
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The statement says it was a defensive action. So I'm guessing Phalanx.
 
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THEIS said:
Hi,

At only 1000 yards away...they could have downed that UAV with all sorts of things but I am interested to see if they used some of the non-kenetic energy anti-uav weapons they have been outfitted with or did they use the tried and true Phalanx CIWS.

Sincerely,
Theis
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Unless they got some new Dr. Evil shit installed from the time I was on there.... It was likely Phalanx CWIS. Those things are beautiful when they go to work. BRRRRRRRRRTTT
 
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Was standing watch in Moscow when cable regards USS Vincennes shooting down Iran Air came in.
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@pmclaine I was posted Moscow Embassy same time. I think I was actually at the Dacha after doing Hash House Run with the AF/General and his team when it happened. Their trip was cut short and they had to go back to CONUS.
 
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Wait you have to use a wheeled land based vehicle to protect a ship at sea...........
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I think originally it was ground based but now mounted on ships.

@THEIS could elaborate (maybe if not classified)

Quote from article:

The LMADIS is a maneuverable system installed on MRZR all-terrain vehicles. One of the MRZRs is a command vehicle and the other an electronic-warfare platform, according to a Marine Corps video that describes the system. It's typically used on the ground, but has recently been put to the test on several Navy ships.
 
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2ndamendfan said:
I think originally it was ground based but now mounted on ships.

@THEIS could elaborate (maybe if not classified)

Quote from article:

The LMADIS is a maneuverable system installed on MRZR all-terrain vehicles. One of the MRZRs is a command vehicle and the other an electronic-warfare platform, according to a Marine Corps video that describes the system. It's typically used on the ground, but has recently been put to the test on several Navy ships.
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I had that technology 1989, MSG Watchstander, MSG Det US Mission Geneva.

Out riding my mountain bike I came across a radio control air field.

Switzerland is full of cool shit like radio control airfields and awesome rifle ranges.

Any way I stopped my ride to watch some radio control airplanes get put through their paces.

While sitting there my Embassy Pager went off. It was pre cell phone days. We carried our pagers or radios. The pager was less bulky than the radio when on the bike.

Anyway the pager went off and just as it did the in flight big ass Cessna that was being RC controlled banked hard left right into a tree.

I hoped on my bike and pedaled away.

Coincidence or the first USMC drone kill?

I deserve a ribbon.
 
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