Rocket attack
Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:14 pm
I haven't had the time to watch the news, regarding the rocket attack on the USN ship or ships in Jordan. I am not aware of casualties, and I pray that eveyone there is fine.
Briefly, I caught a glimpse of either a DC-3 or a C-47 in the background of one of the scenes.
Has anyone seen it, too?
Saludos,
Tulio
Briefly, I caught a glimpse of either a DC-3 or a C-47 in the background of one of the scenes.
Has anyone seen it, too?
Saludos,
Tulio
Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:02 pm
No one hurt Tulio, at least no American casulties. The rockets/mortars overshot the ships and they left port. Apparently they hit a warehouse and a couple of other structures.
Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:29 pm
Thank you, Rick.
Tulio
Tulio
Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:26 pm
Tulio is always on the lookout for warbirds...."DC-3/C-47 in the background". I've got to give him credit, I didn't see them but I might be doing the same thing. Of course it might be another Pearl Harbor but be on the lookout for warbirds....."Always Vigil".
Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:32 pm
By the way an after thought. Didn't we learn anything from the Cole attack? What about the "CIWS" systems on board these vessels. I guess
Jordan is suppose to be a friendly port. They should have at least went off and shot down something.......
Jordan is suppose to be a friendly port. They should have at least went off and shot down something.......
Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:38 pm
I got the impression these ships were tied up at the dock, not anchored up in the harbor .
Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:50 pm
I doubt the CIWS will do anything against a RPG!
Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:11 pm
They were tied up to the dock, at least one of them, what looked like a LSD. But that shouldn't matter with the weapons systems. Besides I think these rockets were reported as something more than sofisticated(?) a RPG.
Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:49 pm
Tom, that is how I spot aircraft in locations out of the beaten path; my mind's eye is, let's say it this way, "trained" and I can make out an airplane shape out of a jumble of parts and junk, and that prompts a closer look and inspection.
If I could only remember the exact locations later on . .. : ) (I know, I have logs, but I don't carry them with me all the time).
Saludos,
Tulio
If I could only remember the exact locations later on . .. : ) (I know, I have logs, but I don't carry them with me all the time).
Saludos,
Tulio
Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:41 am
I did see that it looked white with perhaps a blue stripe down the side could not see any numbers on it. also I was flipping channels the other night and saw the james bond movie where he is at the airport taxing around a small cessna and the bad guys destroyed a DC-3 any one catch the N# on it???