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HRK
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posted May 11, 2020 03:52 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by V-Tail:
HRK -- Barnett bank? How old is that photo?


Movie TRUE LIES - 1994


Yep, although this scene might represent the event even better!





Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCNqIBftJ_k
 
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posted May 11, 2020 03:59 PMHide Post
When they say heads are going to roll after this one they ain't shittin' ya.


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snidera
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posted May 11, 2020 05:58 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by golddot:
or maybe we hacked it and sent it on a diff course...


Never attribute to malice that which can be easily explained by stupidity.
 
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posted May 11, 2020 06:16 PMHide Post
^^^ OK, but I still think that trusting a bored sailor with technical skills is sorta like trusting a bored combat engineer.
 
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posted May 11, 2020 07:42 PMHide Post
Gawd I was hoping for some video of the mishap ...…...…. Big Grin
 
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posted May 11, 2020 08:20 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by Woodman:
Next up, a true Wile E. Coyote event. The missile goes straight up. And right back down to its firing position.

Ha ! This is the best news I've heard lately.



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posted May 11, 2020 08:23 PMHide Post
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A target deployment vessel, while deploying targets, was targeted?

Well, if it HADN'T been deploying targets...



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posted May 11, 2020 10:20 PMHide Post
We should immediately deny any responsibility for this, and deny it very unconvincingly.


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posted May 12, 2020 02:23 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by snidera:
Never attribute to malice that which can be easily explained by stupidity.


Or a breakdown in procedures, like when USS Saratoga famously demonstrated in a 1992 NATO exercise that an aircraft carrier can successfully mission-kill a destroyer with Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles.

Or maybe they had a busty nurse come into conn at the wrong moment.



Well upon reflection, probably not.
 
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posted May 12, 2020 05:43 AMHide Post
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2020 is turning out to be one hell of a year for Iran, one headliner after another
Nov-Jan - civil protests and demonstrations against rising fuel prices and poor economic conditions by the government, spiral into riots
Jan - IRGC chief Soleimani is killed in IraqJan - IRGC accidentally shoots down Ukraine airliner taking off from Tehran Int'l Airport
Feb-Apl - Wuhan virus infects broad swath of population including members of parliament and senior ruling officials, deaths are rumored into 40k


After this, the head of their navy said "Hey Abdullah, hold my falafel."


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