Posted on 01/08/2008 6:25:21 PM PST by Flavius
• Three U.S. Navy Ships Approached by Iranian Boats. (.wmv 28 MB) (080107-D-6570C-001)
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Re: Iran
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The navy needs a visible laser to paint these Bozo’s boats with to let them know they are playing with fire.
Pisses me off, but I think we did the right thing. Some say they are getting information from how we responded. No doubt this is true. It probably makes sense to let them see a severe response only when warranted.
We’ll be fine. Secretary of Defense Gates asked the Iranians to “disavow” their “action,” and our admirals are taking care of business in the Gulf. We can get along with Iran, Syria, Sudan and all having nuclear weapons. With the mutually assured destruction doctrine in play, the jihadis wouldn’t dare launch nukes on London and the Vatican.
...makes me all warm, fuzzy and squishy just thinking about our manly leadership.
...not.
We’re pushing for a former member of a State Dept. Advisory Board (Thompson) to “take the helm” after ‘08, too. By that, we know that we’ll be safe and the best of friends with Ahmadinejad in no time.
Thank Allah they were wearing life preservers. I hate to see unsafe operation of recreational watercraft.
Wow, they got closer to these 3 USN vessels than the Viet boats did to the USS Maddox in 1964. Within easy reach of the M2’s on desk. Maybe even too close for the 5” guns to depress -10 degrees?
The Iranian boats got nothin’ though. They don’t have torps or mines on board. This was a “gut check” for their navy commandos, I bet. Didn’t we read something about their Revolutionary Guard taking over their Navy a while back?
They are trying to gauge how many boats they are going to need to use to ram and blow holes in our ships in order for some to get through and hit the target. If they do this, there are going to be hundreds of small fast boats laden with explosives running zigzag patterns into the ships.
All my armchair opinion of course.
I wonder where all of the arm chair captains are? They sure enjoyed posting a lot of BS the last time this happened with the Brits.
Last I read the Revolutionary Guard alumni had leadership control of just about everything.
well we did not have any kidnapping and they were going to get shot out of the water when they departed
I do remember reading that Iran has LOTS of small fast boats - just cram ‘em full of explosives and two drivers (if one gets nailed) and drive them fast in large numbers towards our ships. It’s not like we have ships that have dozens of gunner turrets that can work on a hundred+ incoming targets that are zigzagging their way towards them.
This is all prep work for their future assaults. They have a huge desire to take out our ships in the gulf.
They should have been blown out of the water.
Correct. The US Navy can flick them like a buger.
“They should have been blown out of the water.”
Yeah,
Having a hard time figuring out why that didn’t happen.
Hopefully next time they will not allow them to come that close.
I know start the armchair admiral stuff but after the Cole and the Stark you are not getting within 2,000 meters of my ship when I am in indian country.
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