Israeli Military Says Missile Struck Warship Instead of Drone

Jeff Head

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sydneylocks said:
Gang,

Here's website with video clip purported of the missile strike, although it looks more like a launching to me. What do you make of it?
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Looks like two launches (the first shows a missile flying away from the camera) and neither one of them show a hit at the far end of the attack. That seconbd launch was from an area near some storage tanks of some sort and did not look to be launched out to sea to me.
 
bd popeye

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That second pic looks like "PS" to me...I really don't see much damage at all. The pics are quite fuzzy. I do not think that these are the real damage photos...sorry...If you or anyone else can find anymore please post them. Perhaps we may see the "real deal."
 
Jeff Head

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bd popeye said:
That second pic looks like "PS" to me...I really don't see much damage at all. The pics are quite fuzzy. I do not think that these are the real damage photos...sorry...If you or anyone else can find anymore please post them. Perhaps we may see the "real deal."
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Yep...in fact, those look like just about the same pics as earlier...just from a different angle. Here's one of the earlier pics.

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I bet you, from the accounts I have read, that there is much more obvious and serious damage to the helo pad and the hangar. I am waiting to see those pics.
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa'ar_5-class_missile_boat

There is an update on Wikipedia for the Saar 5 attack. It says the landing
pad had caved in. So if thats true, any shots with a Helo sitting on deck
is not of the damaged ship.
 
coolieno99

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This is the reason why the missile struck the deck instead of the hull:


"According to an analysis by U.S. intelligence, the missile homed in on the ship from the rear and hit just as the stern was in the trough of a wave, exploding above deck. Had the stern been a few feet higher, the missile would have struck the hull and detonated below decks, possibly sinking the ship."

Source: CBS News
 
Jeff Head

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coolieno99 said:
According to an analysis by U.S. intelligence, the missile homed in on the ship from the rear and hit just as the stern was in the trough of a wave, exploding above deck. Had the stern been a few feet higher, the missile would have struck the hull and detonated below decks, possibly sinking the ship.Source: CBS News[/I]
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Reasonable explanation, but still basically unnamed sources from a main stream media outlet. I look forward to reading some actual DOD or IDF analysis, and I would still like to see actual pics of the damage to the stern. Perhaps one day we shall.
 
planeman

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I'm confused, has the C-802 got a proximity fuse or something (not sensible). Surely if it went in over the stern it'd go INTO the hanger and deep inside the ship????
 
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planeman said:
I'm confused, has the C-802 got a proximity fuse or something (not sensible). Surely if it went in over the stern it'd go INTO the hanger and deep inside the ship????
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Unless it was coming down at such an angle as to impact the deck from above. Who knows? Word has been that the hangar was heavily damaged as well.
 
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planeman said:
I'm confused, has the C-802 got a proximity fuse or something (not sensible). Surely if it went in over the stern it'd go INTO the hanger and deep inside the ship????
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This here will surely answer your question:

On July 14 at about 8pm local time, about 16km off the coast of Lebanon, the Israeli SAAR-5 class corvette Hanit suffered considerable damage and the loss of four crew members after being attacked by what Israeli sources identified as a C-802 anti-ship cruise missile (ASM), apparently fired by Hezbollah forces. It appears that Israeli intelligence was not aware that Hezbollah had such missiles.[5] As the Hanit’s crew was not expecting such an attack, major defensive systems like its Barak-1 and Phalanx anti-missile systems were not active, and the crew reportedly only had 20 seconds warning to realize and then respond to the missile.[6] The C-802 apparently did not strike the Hanit, but exploded above it with enough force to create a hole in the stern helicopter flight deck, damaging the underlying ship control systems.[7] This would appear to confirm earlier Chinese illustrations that the 165kg warhead of this missile consists of many shaped-charges designed to project explosive energy through a greater proportion of a ship’s structure. Had the missile scored a direct hit there would have been far greater damage and loss of life on the Hanit. In addition, a second C-802 was launched but did not strike the Israeli ship, instead finding a Cambodian-registered freighter and killing 11 Egyptian crewmen.

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