U.S. Ships Attacked

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Defense Tech: U.S. Ships Attacked

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"A rocket was fired early today at two American naval ships docked in southern Jordan, killing a Jordanian soldier and marking the first attack on American military ships in the region in five years," the Times reports.

A rocket was fired at the same time from apparently the same area at an airport in a neighboring Israeli port, hitting a stretch of road and wounding a taxi driver, news agencies reported, citing Israeli officials and witnesses. A third projectile was fired at a Jordanian hospital around the southern port of Aqaba but did no damage.

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Again...

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Two rockets missed the USS Ashland, an American naval ship docked in the port. A Jordanian soldier died when one of the two missiles hit the dockside.

The third missile landed near Eilat airport in neighbouring Israel, causing no injuries.

An internet statement, purportedly from a group which says it has links to al-Qaeda, said it was to blame.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4165190.stm
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jordan rockets miss US Navy ship

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A rocket was fired early today at two American naval ships

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When will the idiots ever learn. When they keep knocking on a someone's door, don't be surprised if some big bastard comes out and kicks their a$$

;)

All these people have to resort to random hit and run so to speak they know they cant fight us like men. very sad it has come to this

Yes, real men bomb villages of little children and women.

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Yes, real men bomb villages of little children and women.

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If the pussies are hiding among them, YES....with a really big bomb.

His hero’s use kids as shields.

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A third projectile was fired at a Jordanian hospital around the southern port of Aqaba but did no damage

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A rather strange "target"......................and the others missed? Sounds as if the people who fired them didn't really know what they were doing?

It sounds almost as if kids had found them?

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Hi nihil,

Wouldn't surprise me if it was kids or teenagers...there's alot of Palestinian refuges in Jordan...targets were Isreal, Jordan, and America...only the Palestinians have a beef with all three as far as I know...and they're not above recruiting kids.

I doubt it was al-Qaeda...seems to me someone just wanted to make it look like it was al-Qaeda...but it was too sloppy and unaffective to be them.

Eg ;)

Good Morning All,

What always astonishes me is the availability of these rockets and explosives in general. They must have mobile salesmen or something like our old ice cream trucks that would drive around and you could purchase just about any type of snack you wanted. Can hear them now, "Here ya go young lady. This is our latest skirt model of plastik. You can wear this undetected into a disco. Just press the belt buckle and it will leave a crater six feet deep, vaperizing anyone within 50 feet. Also you won't feel anything other than a little warmth." "And for the man of the house, our latest version of a RPG. You can remain well hidden among the villagers and babies while launching this rocket at an unsuspecting crowd."

That clearly indicates funding and support from larger groups, countries, etc. (unless they just have this stuff laying around for the neighborhood kids to play with)

!~cheers~!

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All these people have to resort to random hit and run so to speak they know they cant fight us like men. very sad it has come to this

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Actualy hit and run is a valid military tactic, special forces use it all the time, over here we call it shoot and scoot.

But in this instance it is just mindless stupidity.

Hi EG~

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and they're not above recruiting kids.

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Very true, but I wonder if it was even that involved. Normally if you give someone a device like a RPG launcher or recoilless rifle, you give them some basic instructions on the effective range and how to use the sighting mechanism?

All that seems to be missing here, which leads me to think that kids found a stash and thought they would "play" like their elder siblings? hey, there is enough hatred and indoctrination in their lives, is there not?

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...and don't forget that 'hit and run' was the main tactic the americans used against the british during our revolution. im sure the british had some words for it too with some of them usable in mixed company.

How the hell do you aim one rocket at two naval ships?

Errr...................you are 9 years old, the thing is very heavy, and if an RPG, nose heavy at that.

You have worked out the safety and the trigger (not difficult.................Russian peasants can use them) but the thing wobbles like hell and you cannot aim and fire it steadily..............warships are pretty big, but this is a short range AT weapon we are talking.

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Is an RPG actually going to do anything to a warship?
Apart from anyone unlucky enough to be on deck.

Is not like trying to take out a tank with a spud-gun?

Hi Aspman,

In the Falklands campaign Royal Marines damn near took out an Argentinian corvette with two 66mm and one 84mm round.

Typically, a tank is more heavily armoured than a modern warship

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That's a surprise to me. I must still be thinking of the WWII ships with inches of armour. I wouldn't have thought a modern ship was so vulnerable.

http://www.naval-history.net/F62brshipslost.htm
Two other ships in the falklands (british) are the reason battleships are no longer made from aluminium..
Aluminium just burns (and you won't be able to kill the flames) after being hit by an exocet..

Hi,

Come on now it's a Act of despiration ..........Katyusha rockets can hardly pose a serious threat to a naval ship.........even provided to strike their intended targets........ At most it could made a Dent or a Big Eye Soaring Scrach on the Ship . :rolleyes:

even /if/ one or both of these rockets had hit their targets they wouldn't have had much of an impact. Both of these ships are much bigger than the USS Cole was... the Ashland is about twice the displacement, the Kearsarge is about 5 times the displacement. Both of these are rather large boats and the "terrorists" missing them brings forth the image of not being able to hit the broadside of a barn :) The Kearsarge is almost the size of a Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier...

Yeah the ships we build now-a-days aren't nearly as heavily armored as the ships of yesteryear but they can still take a beating. Besides they don't need the armor that the old tubs needed.

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Originally posted here by The Texan
All these people have to resort to random hit and run so to speak they know they cant fight us like men. very sad it has come to this

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It's the only way for a smallish group of rebels to successfully fight against one of the largest super-powers on the face of the globe. There is nothing honorable or manly about outright suicide (which is what it would be if the "terrorists" fought a trenched war.) We have superior technology and they know it, which is why they fight us in ways that helps level the playing field. If they did not use these tactics then they really would be the stupid towel-heads t hat so many people claim they are. Wars aren't won just because you have the largest force. They're won because you out-thought and out-maneuvered your enemy.

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Originally posted here by !mitationRust
His hero’s use kids as shields.

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Who are my heroes?

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Originally posted here by Cybr1d
If the pussies are hiding among them, YES....with a really big bomb.

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Oh dear God, sometimes I just cant understand how utterly blind people can be.

Can anyone explain how any country can bomb areas of another country where families and young children are and the bombed country not retaliate?

The reason I ask is because I'm surprised that we havent had more terror attacks in the US by now. How many people(civilians) overseas are they gonna let US kill?

i rather argue linus torwalds' kernel policy then politics...

just remmeber at least US is reasonable in our own way ...