Posted on 03/29/2011 9:02:20 AM PDT by tobyhill
U.S. aircraft have fired on a Libyan coast guard vessel, forcing it to limp to shore, after it launched missiles at merchant ships in the port of Misrata, U.S military officials said Tuesday.
A U.S. Navy P-C3 Maritime Patrol aircraft fired at the Vittoria after multiple explosions were seen near the Libyan port Monday evening, according to Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn statement.
The 12-meter patrol vessel "was hit and no longer operational, and forced to beach near the port," Lt. Nathan Potter told The Associated Press in a phone interview from aboard the USS Mount Whitney.
"The purpose of firing onto the vessel was to stop them from firing into the port, harming civilians and damaging other vessels" Potter said.
He added that the U.S. military was in the process of assessing the damage the Libyan vessel had caused, including whether any civilians had been harmed, or if any vessels in the port had sustained damage.
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Hmm. How about that? I wonder what type of missiles a PC3 carries? Anyone know?
What line is attack small boats on in the no fly zone BS, did some of the personal have on water wings.
no fly, no drive, no walk, no float zone
talk about mission creep
I in no way believed that we would be “limited” in this conflict. NATO is skeptical to take over after what Barry said last night. This whole thing is sliding downhill.
Harpoon capable, but a missile like that would have torn a small ship like that to pieces.
I just wonder how they spotted that flying Libyan Coast Guard Vessel?
HE’S A WARMONGERER! NO BLOOD FOR OIL! TROOPS OUT NOW!
they probably strafed it. had they hit it with a missile, i doubt it would have been limping anywhere but straight down.
Its about caliphate creep with US support, not mission creep. Well, it depends on who’s mission.
Its not about Libya , its about all the rebels being prepositioned to take down north Africa to put under one nation.
Its about Obama’s America consolidating the rebels advances.
We need to just blow up everything we see and end this by Saturday's pork and beans.
This nitwit president intends to stick our nose in someone else's $hit.
Not that I am in agreement with this Libyan 'adventure', but these merchant ships fired on by the Libyan vessel, whose flag(s) were they flying, and ere any of them hit by said missile fire?
the infowarrior
It’s not going unnoticed
Mar 28, 2011 ... Russian foreign minister says ‘intervention’ by Western coalition in Libya’s civil war not sanctioned by U.N. resolution - Reuters.
” ... military alliance is `impartial’ and will not take sides in the conflict in Libya ... “
Well, that patrol boat is certinaly never going to fly again.
Harpoons. It can carry up to four of them.
“We’re only sending non-combat advisors to Vietnam....”
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