Anti Ship Missile Hits Ship......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-52612511
Do you think they read the instructions?

[Gromit]

They were writing the instructions.
The social distancing between support vessel and target had not been worked out. But have now.

[SlackAlice]

How easily you trivialise 19 dead people plus others injured. You must be proud of your self.

[ToraToraTora]

That's TNL for you Alice!

[steg]

I’m glad it wasn’t nukes they were testing

[SlackAlice]

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What's TNL?

[Zacs-Master]

I suspect it might be The Navy Lark.

[youngmafbog]

Looks like they were trained by the Yanks!

[Gromit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

[ToraToraTora]

TNL = The Nasty Left

[mushroom25]

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 //

I see yours, and raise you:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines_Flight_752

[ToraToraTora]

I suspect Gromit was trying to find a British example of shooting at something by mistake but had to settle on being anti US this time.