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To: Androcles

How did this guy know that Iranian boats were swarming American ships and throwing white boxes in the sea at the time? Besides, don’t we have radio directional capabilities to determine where it’s coming from?


13 posted on 01/15/2008 3:59:26 PM PST by Soliton (McCain/Thompson 2008. Feingold for Secretary of the Treasury!)
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To: Soliton
How did this guy know that Iranian boats were swarming American ships and throwing white boxes in the sea at the time?

Telescope?

Besides, don’t we have radio directional capabilities to determine where it’s coming from?

When's the last time you used a radio with directional capabilities? Radios don't work that way. I'm sure the Navy has RDF capabilities on many of its ships, but it would be a separate device which would have to be activated, and would take a little time to identify a direction.

35 posted on 01/15/2008 4:54:28 PM PST by 3niner (War is one game where the home team always loses.)
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To: Soliton

“Besides, don’t we have radio directional capabilities to determine where it’s coming from?”

Yeah. But it takes more than two short sentences to triangulate it.


38 posted on 01/15/2008 5:02:36 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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