Breaking: US destroys Iranian drone

I'm glad you have admitted that allied nations should defend themselves when in conflict. That comes in handy for future debates.

Thanks bro

 

Some of their drones are armed, and Iran is also known to just strap explosives to drones and fly them into groups of people.

 

Thats what Im saying.

 

I hope we get lots of info from this system, and I hope Iran got none.

 

“I also call on other nations to protect their ships as they go through the strait and to work with us in the future,” Trump added.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/na...-s-navy-ship-shot-down-iranian-drone-n1031451

 

So just to be clear, you and Trump agree?

 

As do I.
Maga Maga Maga.

 

Evidently, does every bush beater get this confused so easily?

 

Target practice.

 

If there has to be a Sheriff to enforce and protect international shipping better we be the Sheriff.

 

You have to ask?

 

Since you don't mind paying for it why not?
Protect those nations and their bottom line while we burn through ours...

 

Unless trump wants to defend them, then you’ll support it.

 

Is that what trump ran on? Being the worlds policemen? How much is asking the UAE to pay for protection?

 

I haven't seen one post where anyone expresses what they think you should think. Frankly I don't think anyone gives a **** about what you do or don't give a **** about. Just sayin.

Your lack of knowledge about the Strait of Hormuz and the effect it has on world oil isn't surprising.

 

Trump admits the Boxer was in international waters. Ipso facto, so was the drone. Nah, no right to attack it at all. Right now, on the Cental Queensland coast, there is a massive military exercise under way including a US Carrier etc and large number of US troops and equipment. Of course, Australia is part of it as well, as are the Japanese. Guess who has a spy vessel off shore in international waters, observing? China. Do we go out and destroy it for being there looking. Of course not. That would be an act of War. Get out of Arabia, Trump! Get out. "Get back to where you came from." That is the chant of today is it not, Trump?

 

It is what the US has run on since WW2.

 

Well, here in the totalitarian state of California, under prop 47 if the drone is worth under $951. I can pretty much do whatever I want to someone else's private property no matter where that private property is.

 

It apporached the ship in a threatening manner and was warned off but refused.

Into the sea.

Why do you support the Iranian government and their belligerence?

 

Nope. The value could be zero. It is illegal to shoot down a drone on your property. You will be charged with vandalism if the owner chooses. All you can do is press charges for trespassing. Your sentence will be longer than his.

Not legally.

 

Obvious you don't live in California.

In California criminals are a protected group just as illegal aliens are.

 

Obviously, you don’t know the law.

https://mycaliforniadefenseattorney.com/can-shoot-drones-flying-house/

Making things up doesn’t make you less wrong about shooting down a drone being illegal.

 

So many people do the same thing. It's best to assume it's thieves casing the neighborhood.

 

Well, everybody please just 'stand down' for a moment....

Do we KNOW for an absolute FACT whose drone (if there was one) was actually destroyed? Let's get that ascertained first, and then "let the good times roll".

There are currently a bunch of conflicting reports out right now. If we shot down an Iranian drone that approached a U. S. Navy ship in a menacing way -- all well and good! If, on the other hand, we shot down one of our own drones, then the America-hating liberal Left will have something new to blame Trump for. Fair enough.

But let's get the central fact of the matter out first, before there's any more crowing, or, on the other hand, bitching. Simple satellite reconnaisance and other 'intel' should be able to settle this immediately... and you can bet we watch everything that flies over the Persian Gulf like a hawk!

Besides, shouldn't it be possible for us to find the drone (whoever it belonged to) and put it on display where everybody can see it...?

 

This post has been updated with additional details on the downing of the Iranian drone.

Amphibious warship USS Boxer (LHD-4) took down an Iranian drone that U.S. officials say threatened the ship as it entered the Persian Gulf on Thursday.

At about 10 a.m. local time, Boxer was transiting Strait of Hormuz when an Iranian fixed-wing drone approached the ship, a defense official told USNI News.

“A fixed-wing unmanned aerial system (UAS) approached Boxer and closed within a threatening range. The ship took defensive action against the UAS to ensure the safety of the ship and its crew,” a Pentagon spokesman said in a Thursday afternoon statement provided to USNI News.

The statement did not detail the method in which Boxer downed the drone. The ship is armed with RIM-7 Sea Sparrow short-range anti-ship missiles, and the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) and Phalanx CIWS point defense weapons systems. Additionally, the Navy and the Marine Corps have begun to field a wide variety of non-kinetic systems capable of downing a drone by other means.

Photographs released by the Navy in January, show Marines operating the MRZR-mounted, anti-UAS Marine Air Defense Integrated System on the deck of Kearsarge as part of the ship’s force protection regime as it transited the Suez Canal. USNI News understands the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard Boxer also deployed with the system and that it’s the likely weapon that was used to splash the Iranian drone.


U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Fernando Anzaldua III, an assistant gunner, and Cpl. Jordan Gillett, a gunner with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit provide security to their light marine air defense integrated system aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) as it passes the Mubarak Peace Bridge in the Suez Canal. US Marine Corps Photo

Military.com reported that MADIS was used in the engagement. In March, USNI News reported that the Marines were experimenting with the capability before developing a version to deploy with Marine JLTVs.

“The MADIS system connects mature radars, passive detection sensors, optics and jammers – and soon a kinetic kill option will be integrated in, likely a small drone that could shoot down another small drone,” reported USNI News.

News of the intercept first came from a press event at the White House in which President Donald Trump told reporters of the downing of the Iranian drone.

“This is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions against vessels operating in international waters,” Trump told reporters in the White House on Thursday afternoon.

The downing of the Iranian drone comes as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy announced they had seized a UAE-owned, Panamanian-flagged tanker and follows reports of Iranian harassment of a British owned tanker last week...

continue -> https://news.usni.org/2019/07/18/uss-boxer-downs-iranian-drone-in-defensive-action