Misfired Patriot missile hits farm in Qatar
A Patriot missile hit a farm in Qatar after being accidentally fired from a base used by U.S. forces in the Gulf Arab state, Al Jazeera television said on Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071016/ts_nm/qatar_patriot_dc
PAtriot missiles were worthless anyway.
did you see the image of the missile? It looked pretty intact except for the head. The rest was all in one piece.
They can only move up to a certain point. To make it to the senior enlisted ranks it is now proven very difficult without any college. To advance as a senior enlisted; you won't without a bachelors degree or higher. Very few are the excepiton, but no H.S. dropout will ever make First Sergeant or Command Sergeant Major.
To be an Officer it is a pre-requisite to have a college degree.
If H.S. was too much of a pain in the a$$ to them, do you really think they have what it takes to advance in the military? All of the standards for advancement both written and unwritten have changed since the Vietnam era.
But can those drop outs work their way up? I have known many people of rank in the services, and I wouldn't trust them to make toast.
tra la la
Ofcourse we've heard about Hiroshima and Nagaski,who hasn't? But what do they have to do with this ? Those were intended bombings.
That is true, but all you will be doing is driving a fuel truck through a combat zone. The standards haven't dropped for the occupational specialties that make us elite.
You don't even have to have a high school diploma to serve for the USA now....so what do you expect to happen when they keep lowering the entrance standards?
tra la la
I think comments like that are a little ill chosen to say the least!
Maybe you just worded it wrongly, yes?
Accidents Happen. It was probably an electronic problem. Technology has made a lot of things better and some flaky.
The one thing you do have correct is that they are "the strongest, smartest, etc military forces. Everybody's a quick to be a critiqe when they know the are outmatched.
What makes them the "Good Guys" is that they could wipe this entire region off the map, but Choose not to. Ever heard of Hiroshima?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
and 'self-destructed'. I'm not up on military parlance, but I assumed that meant if it couldn't find a target to blow up (i.e. hadn't been programmed to aim at anything in particular) then it blew itself up instead.
Thank Poopy - I may avail myself of your hospitality booth at a later date :P
Accidents do happen, but one wouldn't expect it from such a "prepared" force. Would this strong force allow itself to have flaky technology ? Wouldn't it have all sorts of tests to make sure that there's no faulty equipment? Nonetheless...accidents can happen.
Honestly, I didn't know what Iwo Jima was so I googled it. It's the sight where Americans and Japanese fought in 1945. But what does that have to do with this ?
they (US Forces members) were made by mistake.
lol
they will destroy qatar 1 day and will say sorry it was an accident
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I'm just wondering how the strongest, smartest, etc military forces "accidentally" hit something. Hmmm...
My Confession Booth is open for fallout shelter services.....
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I hope his camels, goats and my donkeys survived the impact....
More garbage for the desert, know the Army has to pick it up, including the dump sites in 11 miles radius.
Not counting the money to be paid to farm grounds owners and Qatar Government.
I believe It was an accident. Since the 1991, the protocols of engagement of those missiles have being improved 100 percent. But Murphy is always playing his cards in awkward situations.
I still remember those darn Scuds falling out of sky....... I was more scare of the debris coming down at you, instead of the missiles itself....
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A number of problems with Patriot missile defenses and related systems contributed to three friendly fire deaths during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Pentagon has said.
Patriot batteries misidentified and shot down an American and a British fighter in separate incidents, leaving three air crew members dead. A Patriot system also mistakenly tracked another U.S. fighter, which bombed a radar in response. The incidents took place in March and April 2003.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/16/america/NA-GEN-US-Qatar-Missile.php
You'd never know where they're gunna 'accidentally' hit next time.
What if the word 'accidentally' hit Al Corniche..., or Umm Said or Ras Laffan?.
anything done by Ameicans is by 'mistake' not 'deliberate'
What was the necessity of doing anything with thath.
It was the same when the B-52 bombers went all the way from Guam to US with loaded nuclear warheads.
And its a simple MISTAKE
'ooops! Sowweeee - didn't mean to do that'
Jeez
yeah me too the "accidentally" is the scary part. It could be just as "accidental" as it was when they blew up aljazeeras office in iraq.
that little word 'accidentally' in the news item worries me more than anything else it said!
worked fairly well in the first gulf war. They were good scudbusters
for the amount of money that you pay to buy one such missile and it does not do what it is supposed to do you say its ineffective isnt it ? not worthless!!
why so many in QL are angry with darude? why they want him to be hit by the missile.. well i just keep silent about this i dont want to intrigue you guys.. no comment..hehehe.
when you say "worthless" it has no purpose.. maybe they are ineffective as of today but they are trying their best to hit the target.. Perhaps next time they will hit the camel according to Charan.. lol
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Hope they didn't suspect Darude as the Al Queida main operative in Qatar :)
Hope it wasn't Darude's farm. :)
Oh they targeted an ORIX)
maybe a bird most probably
It is designed to detect, target and then hit an incoming missile. Targeted a camel missile I think :)
verify the performance. in real life situations it has not been much of a success as they have claimed while testing.
It is designed to detect, target and then hit an incoming missile.
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