USA warship shoots down Iranian drone

[2ndamendfan]

American warship shoots down Iranian drone

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. warship on Thursday destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after it threatened the ship, President Donald Trump said. The incident marked a new escalation of te…

fox59.com

 

[acudaowner]

yea now they just need to sink those little rubberized rafts they use as gun boats .

 

[BLKWLFK9]

 

[pmclaine]

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.

 

[W54/XM-388]

They shot down one of ours so it's only sporting that we shoot down one of theirs.

 

[BLKWLFK9]

If it was within 1000 yards and advancing like the article said, they had every right to shoot it down.

 

[FS1]

Missile, Harrier or Helio?

 

[Maggot]

Defense contractors want more profits...

 

[W54/XM-388]

Defense contractors want more profits...

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....

 

[Blue Sky Country]

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....

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.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

The quickest why to get this country back on track is allowing trees an rope to be used like they were meant to be.

 

[THEIS]

Missile, Harrier or Helio?

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

 

[cornhusker86]

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

The statement says it was a defensive action. So I'm guessing Phalanx.

 

[j-huskey]

Latest reports say electronic countermeasures....



Yep, new Dr. Evil shit... ?

 

[clcustom1911]

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

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

 

[clcustom1911]

Latest reports say electronic countermeasures....

Link to an article?

 

[clcustom1911]

Electronic Jamming Equipment takes down Iranian drone.

Damn.... Dr. Evil technology for the Win!!!

 

[Renegade]

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

@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.

 

[DIBBS]

Iran shouldn't poke the bear, between Israel and the US, they could be gone in the blink of an eye!

 

[lash]

Iran shouldn't poke the bear, between Israel and the US, they could be gone in the blink of an eye!

Well, then they can be the victims and collect reparations and rebuilding money...

 

[THEIS]

Hi,

The non-kenetic energy weapons are awesome
I got to play aka test some of them.

Sincerely,
Theis

 

[2ndamendfan]

I am I the only one who thinks 1000 yards is way to close to begin with?

 

[308pirate]

ECM is nothing new.

 

[2ndamendfan]

Here's the New Marine Corps Weapon that Just Destroyed an Iranian Drone

The Marine Corps' Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System, known as LMADIS, jammed an Iranian drone.

www.military.com

 

[Fig]

Missile, Harrier or Helio?

My guess is CIWS.

 

[Fig]

Here's the New Marine Corps Weapon that Just Destroyed an Iranian Drone

The Marine Corps' Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System, known as LMADIS, jammed an Iranian drone.

www.military.com

Lol. Or that thing....

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

Killing a drone is nothing but a big Yawn, kill the fucks who sent it an I'll set up straight,... Tit for Tat is kid shit.

 

[pmclaine]

Here's the New Marine Corps Weapon that Just Destroyed an Iranian Drone

The Marine Corps' Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System, known as LMADIS, jammed an Iranian drone.

www.military.com

Wait you have to use a wheeled land based vehicle to protect a ship at sea...........

 

[EddieNFL]

Missile, Harrier or Helio?

Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle.

 

[lash]

Wait you have to use a wheeled land based vehicle to protect a ship at sea...........

Don’t have to, wanted to. A great test of equipment in an actual application.

 

[2ndamendfan]

Wait you have to use a wheeled land based vehicle to protect a ship at sea...........

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.

 

[10ring'r]

America is a "war" economy, for the most part. Mac

 

[pmclaine]

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.

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.

 

[EddieNFL]

 

[Fig]

I had nothing to do with them, but there were microwave emitters on Ticonderoga Class Cruisers in the ‘90s. The EWs claimed they could shoot a fighter down at 5nm.

 

[Precisiondada]

I am I the only one who thinks 1000 yards is way to close to begin with?

Nope. Right there with ya. I have no idea, but would think those perimeter distances would be measured in nautical miles not rifle range.

Edit: May be due to how narrow the strait is with bordering countries airspace?

 

[2ndamendfan]

For those that want more info on the ship Iran was looking at.

USS Boxer (LHD-4) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ArmyJerry]

Big Slow Target

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Killing a drone is nothing but a big Yawn, kill the fucks who sent it an I'll set up straight,... Tit for Tat is kid shit.

 

[SilentStalkr]

Iran shouldn't poke the bear, between Israel and the US, they could be gone in the blink of an eye!

As long as we go in a save some Iranian women to bring back home first. I could use a few submissive Persian women at home ??!

 

[Inifinty]

Baghdad Bob must have escaped to Iran all those years ago.

Iran says U.S. may have shot down its own drone by mistake