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Drug Boat Strike
- Thread starter Griz882
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Sub with a torpedo?
At this point, they might as well let the bubble heads play…
At this point, they might as well let the bubble heads play…
I'm not sure there would be any pieces left if it were that.
Maybe the VP guys torped them…now that would be interesting.
Coulda been anything. I once watched an MQ-whatever shoot a hellfire into the engine block of an ISIS truck in a service shop in Mosul, from the CAS stack. I remember thinking, "huh, good choice, everything on my wings would have leveled the whole place". It is wild how precise and low collateral some more modern platforms can be these days. It wouldn't surprise me if this was a drone strike, but I haven't really studied the video very closely, before anyone tries to big league me here 
Given the various assets that are down there right now, this makes the most sense. I am surprised how relatively unharmed the hull is, though.
ETA: If it is APK, I think that might be the first operational maritime strike with that weapon system unless the Marines have hit something elsewhere (which is entirely possible).
It wouldn't be able to hit that target.
I’m a long way off from a VP (or torpedo) expert, but I was kind of joking off the @sevenhelmet bubblehead quip. This does lead to a question (don’t answer if it is none of my business) can the P-8 utilize smaller weapons like the Hellfire?
Nope
You think they’re more afraid of the US judicial system than retaliation by the cartels against them and their families?
I think the cartels would prefer they be nuked than captured.
Dead men tell no tales.
Yup! They are so far down the food chain they likely don't care about them much, and it isn't like most of them are some sort of monolithic organization either. In reality plenty of them squeal on the next guy up the food chain when faced with substantial US federal prison time.