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| Thread ID: 113913 | 2010-11-09 14:51:00 | Privateer Missile Launch? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1151637 | 2010-11-09 14:51:00 | Reported by a TV station and with them providing videos of the missile trail, no-one has any idea what - or who shot it off . Mystery missile caught on video off L . A . coast Trail streaks across Southern California sky; Pentagon and Navy baffled ( . msnbc . msn . com/id/40087187/ns/us_news-security/" target="_blank">www . msnbc . msn . com) Uh huh . It wasn't me this time . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1151638 | 2010-11-09 20:01:00 | Your TV station must have been very short of news . Aren't the Pentagon and (to a lesser extent) the Navy usually baffled? :devil |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1151639 | 2010-11-09 20:06:00 | Might have been an SOS flare from this (www.bbc.co.uk) | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1151640 | 2010-11-09 20:24:00 | Might have been an SOS flare from this (www.bbc.co.uk) Nah - they tracked it on radar for over 1200 miles. (NZ= a long way). |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1151641 | 2010-11-09 20:47:00 | Just what an Italian ship needs is a Mexican ship repair facility! Reports here are that the fire wasn't even discovered for 1/2 hour or more - some of the ionization detection systems weren't up and operational yet . Very cavalier attitude with human lives - even for Italians . Personally, you'd never get me on a Panamanian-flagged vessel for anything . They just don't have decent standards of inspection and maritime implementation of even a yeoman's practical factors . I have a friend whose son is aboard the (Italian-for-the-USN) Fincantieri-built USS Freedom, (LCS-1) . * They have had multiple fires of the same kind on it and are currently CAS/REP'd in a drydock for re-outfitting to better firefighting standards . UNfortunately, the drydock is in Italy . * NOTE: {from Wikioedia} Fincantieri successfully completed the acquisition of Manitowoc Marine Group from its parent company The Manitowoc Company, Inc . on Jan 1, 2009, which consisted of two shipyards in Wisconsin, including Marinette Marine who built the LCS-1 . Fincantieri also purchased from Manitowoc Marine Group a topside repair yard in Ohio and one production plant in Wisconsin making it one of the leading mid-sized shipbuilders in the United States for commercial and government customers, including the U . S . Navy and U . S . Coast Guard . a |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1151642 | 2010-11-09 20:53:00 | 1200 miles is that US miles or real Miles as in English miles? as we all know you Americans invented a different imperial scale to make your things look better, but we all know that only works in your own borders even the Canadians didn't buy it. They went with Napoleons metricification system | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1151643 | 2010-11-09 22:01:00 | Ironman | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1151644 | 2010-11-10 01:26:00 | Couldn't they just follow the trail back to the source?? | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1151645 | 2010-11-10 01:30:00 | haha someone keeping the military awake thats for sure | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1151646 | 2010-11-10 02:22:00 | The 'Is-Was' computations show it had to be an ocean platform, since there's no land in the area where it launched . If there weren't any videos of it, it would be dismissed as a false alarm or loco-weed . |
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