Exocet

[flashpig]

Where can I find a video of an Exocet missile firing, preferably from a plane.

I saw a documentary on these, and they are just really cool, but wikipedia doesn't have one, just a couple of stills of them hitting some ship.

There seemed to be plenty of shots of them firing in this documentary.

[Drusilla]

This link should help.

http://www.mbda.net/site/FO/scripts/siteFO_contenu.php?lang=EN&noeu_id=105

Hope it works

[SeaJayPea]

Not entirely sure that "really cool" is exactly the phrase to use to describe something which has the sole purpose of killing people.

"Some ship" was probably one of the British ones that were sunk during the Falklands conflict with great loss of life and serious injury.

You may well not be in the UK, but this is a British site.

[nedflanders]

im sure simon weston will be pleased you think they are pretty cool.

[gary baldy]

I like the little ps at the bottom of the link Drusilla posted:

"The exocet is battle proven"

Dont we blinking know it ?!?!

[flashpig]

I'm from the UK, not France or Argentina, and although I don't find war cool I think that weapons are cool. It's a weird dichotomy. I justify it to myself by seeing them as giant fireworks and try to forget their intended purpose.

I don't know about Simon Weston. He lived, and with horrible scars, but he's okay. It wasn't like he was on the cross-channel ferry, he was on a warship in a war as a fighter, he wasn't drafted or anything, and surely you know that in that situation something might happen to you.

I used to think I was a pacifist, but now I think war is sometimes neccesary, people from the armed forces of whatever country are meant to die in war, and that weapons, boats, planes uniforms, marching, the Royal Tournament etc. are cool. Killing still isn't cool to me though.

[flashpig]

That thing with all thouse nudie guys beating each other up. That wasn't cool either, that was properly weird.

[SeaJayPea]

I know who I'm beginning to think is really weird