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Originally Posted by chadbb63
During the Gulf War, a Silk Worm missles was shot at us. The ship was under
G.Q.'s at the time, so it was secured. From what we were told, it passed right over us then turned around. A british ship, shot the missle down.
I have no idea if this is true, but we did brace for shock and even had a countdown to impact. I figured as long as it didnt hit close to my g.q., i would be ok. I was 17 i didnt know anything.
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If you were aboard the USS
Missouri (BB-63) the missiles didn't quite get as close as a mile to you otherwise GMC Miller's Gatling guns would have ate them. It was by luck a British Sea Dart hit the lead missile and the second one knocked itself out by flying into the debris of the first one.
Missouri DID get hit during that engagement, but from a stray DU penetrator from a Vulcan/Phalanx of another coalition ship.
However, if you were aboard a certain FFG-7 class ship, the missile was an Exocet launched in panic by an Iraqi pilot whose other two aircraft escorting him were shot down by a Saudi Arabian pilot. The missile flew over your ship because it couldn't get a permanent lock on it. The reason it couldn't get a lock was because we had a Tiger Team go over to Bahrain and install a stealth system on it.
These are the reports I received as I was still the structural project manager for the
Iowa class Battleships and the Long Beach Point of Contact for the FFG-7 Stealth installations.