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2010-08-09 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Flotilla ship 'painted' to cover "thousands of bullet holes"

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Posted by tu3031 2010-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 I've seen enough stop signs in west Texas to know that you can't hide bullet holes by painting over them.

Maybe the Israelis didn't shoot bullets at all, but were using paintball guns?

Posted by Glenmore 2010-08-09 08:04|| 2010-08-09 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 You figure that even with spackle, some primer coat and the overcoat, you're never going to get an even match, so you might as well repaint the entire side.

Now if you want to be witty about it, you can make your spackle out of a variation of thermite, with an RFID magnesium fuse. Or just metallic mercury, if the hull is aluminum.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-09 08:12|| 2010-08-09 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Did they sub out to Earl al-Scheib????

Posted by USN, Ret. 2010-08-09 15:28|| 2010-08-09 15:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Aluminum dust mixed into the primer (40/1 paint/AL dust) - hit it with a tracer round, and the entire ship goes up in smoke. Even if the Israelis only painted a 1-inch square, the Turks would have to completely sand down ALL the painted surfaces and repaint them, just to be sure.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-08-09 16:44|| 2010-08-09 16:44|| Front Page Top

#5 those where some bigass commandos too tote that much ammo

Posted by chris 2010-08-09 16:57|| 2010-08-09 16:57|| Front Page Top

#6 If they wanted to hide the evidence they would have sunk it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-08-09 17:13|| 2010-08-09 17:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Turkish prosecutors will board the vessels Monday to look for evidence of what happened during the raid

That's what you call a big fat hope,

Posted by Willy 2010-08-09 22:24|| 2010-08-09 22:24|| Front Page Top

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