Posted on 10/12/2021 3:34:50 PM PDT by Conservat1
Iranian state TV has claimed its navy chased a US vessel in the Persian Gulf, with video showing Revolutionary Guards cheering as they tail the speedboat.
The footage shows at least one US-flagged vessel with around six personnel on board as two speedboats appear to be chasing it.
A voice in Farsi says, ‘Keep chasing them,’ as other men cheer and whistle in the background. The report did not say when the encounter took place.
The US Navy said it was not aware of any such incident at sea in the last few days.
The American vessel in the clip is a Riverine Command Boat, a 52ft fast military assault craft which is often deployed in the region.
Typical armaments of the Riverine include three deck-mounted .50 calibre Browning M2 machine guns and a 40mm Mk19 grenade launcher….
Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy´s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, said he wasn’t aware of any sort of unsafe interaction with Iran in the last two days.
The report is the first such report in recent months….
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Shame they couldn’t spin that .50 around and sink them.
How do you say “Let’s go Brandon!” In Farsi?
But the USN is the most vaxxed
Shoot the damn thing out of the water.
Obama got such a kick out of the seizure of one of these type boats in 2016 right before Kerry signed the bogus treaty with Iran, and the humiliation of the sailors involved, that he’s orchestrated it again. He’s probably been laughing all day about this.
Wouldn’t surprise me if our navy boys/girls or whatever they identify with didn’t jump overboard and give the iranians the boat.
Biden will not allow any resistance by the US Navy. That’s a given!
I’d like to buy an E, I, O and U please.
Just like the guy he used to work for.
PING!
Valerie Jarrett is pleased.
Send some attack helicopter after them.
I can’t forget the troves of cash Obama handed to them for...no reason at all.
It’s a shame to have all these missed opportunities to test rail gun and/or laser weapon prototypes.
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