Insurgents fire missle at F-15

[AquaShrimp]

An F-16 went down under mysterious circumstances just a few weeks ago, now this image of an F-15 being trailed by a surface to air missle was taken by a journalist in Iraq.  Notice how the missle is aiming for the flares.

[Debonair]

kewl pixture:aok

[B@tfinkV]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp

An F-16 went down under mysterious circumstances just a few weeks ago,

mysterious? ROFL its not mysterious its a flippin bloody great big war.



 now this image of an F-15 being trailed by a surface to air missle was taken by a journalist in Iraq.

judging by the smoke trail, the 'journalist' was standing pretty close to the missle as it was launched. hmmmm.



  Notice how the missle is aiming for the flares.



hmmm yes, now that is strange, i geuss those flare could be used for dual purposes if they can work out exactly why the missle aimed for them. imagine that, a random chance photo and it provides us with possibilities for new anti-surface-to-air missle systems.

yes, im being a arse.

cool pic

[VooWho]

I bet the journalist paid an insurgent with a Stinger to shoot at an F-15 and see if he could damage it, get a picture, then say look what the terriost have now, and make America hate our troops more.

[john9001]

"ROFL its not mysterious its a flippin bloody great big war."

you have no idea what a "great big war" is.

[AquaShrimp]

This is a counter-insurgency.  Congress didn't declare war on Iraq.

[B@tfinkV]

Originally posted by john9001
you have no idea what a "great big war" is.


it is a bloody great war. the enemies of the UK and the USA once managed to kill over 30,000 of our lifeforms in one day....nea...in one hour.


now thats a bloody great war statistic if you're our enemy, wouldnt you say.




im sorry though, youre right, next time i feel like talking about war i will make sure i revisit some of history's hotspots and try to get killed or mutilated or some such something that would make my words worthwhile.

[Russian]

Is there a large image available?

[Gunslinger]

It's going after the flares because it's an IR seeker.......


DUH!

I wouldn't doubt that the journalist was near the missle when it was orriginally fired.  This wouldn't be the first time that journalists where embeded with the enemy.

[Golfer]

Where'd we have 30,000 killed in an hour?

Antietam was just under 23,000 men in one day...around 7000 in one hour in the cornfield.

As far as I know that still stands as the bloodiest day in American history.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki would be the only times I could come up with.  Those weren't enemies of USA/UK doing it to us either.

[Hornet33]

Hmmm missle going after the flares. Yep makes sense to me since it was probably a shoulder fired missle like the stinger or more likely an SA-7 or variant there of.

As for the F-16 that went down a few weeks ago, I heard it was an electrical problem that brought that plane down, not enemy fire.

[CavemanJ]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp

Yep... that'll raise the pucker factor pretty quick

[AquaShrimp]

Shoot, I've seen videos of journalists actually riding around with the insurgents as they do their attacks.  One in particular involved mortaring a US base.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Many times the journalists have been suckered in there with false pretenses and once they're riding somewhere with armed terrorists, they have no other option than to comply.

One such event was the DHL cargoplane shooting. The journalists had no idea they were going to shoot a missile on a civillian plane.

[eagl]

Yea, the insurgents were carrying around the missile just to look cool.