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Eh this is only one example of gora fooling brown world or the Global South as it is now being called after Ukraine saga.
Quite interesting. Argies got 4 missile hits.
HMS Sheffield - warhead failed to explode. But the rocket motor ignited the missile magazine. Destroyer was sunk.
HMS Glamorgan was hit on the last day by a make shift truck launched Exocet. Again the warhead failed to explode and the destroyer survived.
Transport Atlantic Conveyor was mistaken for either HMS Hermes or Illustrious and got hit by 2 missiles. There are conflicting reports whether the warheads exploded or the missiles caused fire that ignited fuel bunkers. Ship sank.
So potentially none of the warheads exploded.
Iraqis fired to Exocets at USS Stark, one of them failed to detonate as well.
So 5 Exocets fired in anger with only one detonating.
I remember my dad was invited to a live fire exercise by Pak Navy during one of the Sea Spark Ex. An Exocet was launched by an Atlantique and the warhead failed to explode. One of the old gearing class destroyer moved in the finish the target off with its 5 inch guns. Navy folks were quite embarrassed
Yes we do. But now primarily used by PN on Seakings. Pak Navy recently got 10 Qatari Seakings, some of them are equipped to launch Exocets.
Which one is the most capable anti ship missile in PN inventory?
Are they still kept in wartime reserve, or the rounds are past their useful life too??
What are your sources? You basically said that not a single Exocet worked. Is that some kind of tale only a few know?Quite interesting. Argies got 4 missile hits.
HMS Sheffield - warhead failed to explode. But the rocket motor ignited the missile magazine. Destroyer was sunk.
HMS Glamorgan was hit on the last day by a make shift truck launched Exocet. Again the warhead failed to explode and the destroyer survived.
Transport Atlantic Conveyor was mistaken for either HMS Hermes or Illustrious and got hit by 2 missiles. There are conflicting reports whether the warheads exploded or the missiles caused fire that ignited fuel bunkers. Ship sank.
So potentially none of the warheads exploded.
Iraqis fired to Exocets at USS Stark, one of them failed to detonate as well.
So 5 Exocets fired in anger with only one detonating.
I remember my dad was invited to a live fire exercise by Pak Navy during one of the Sea Spark Ex. An Exocet was launched by an Atlantique and the warhead failed to explode. One of the old gearing class destroyer moved in the finish the target off with its 5 inch guns. Navy folks were quite embarrassed
The warhead did detonate in this attack, evasive action from the crew saved the ship from total destruction. It was for all intent and purposes mission killed and rendered useless for the duration of the war.
There were 2 launched, one missed its target and the other impacted however did not detonate, the impact was immense.
The conflicting reports are of when the warheads detonated, not if. It is unknown if they detonated as soon as they impacted the hull or after penetrating it.
