• Three U.S. Navy Ships Approached by Iranian Boat-(video)

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[Pontiac]

I think you miss the point. Radar that powerful would literally cook the iranian sailors just as if they were in a microwave oven. Just the radar is lethal to unshielded biomass.

I see by your Freeper Page that you are and engineer.

But you do not seem to have any experience in electromagnetic radiation.

The inverse square law states that the intensity of light or other linear waves radiating from a point source (energy per unit of area perpendicular to the source) is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source; so an object (of the same size) twice as far away, receives only ¼ the energy (in the same time period).

So unless the navy has come out with a radar laser they are not going to cook the Iranians in there boat.

While I will admit that a radar dish is more focus than a true pint source it is not columnated beam. Radar dishes are designed to project a conical beam that disburses.

If what you are saying were true the navy would have to shield the sailors on their own decks.

A radar dish may be able to cause injury a few feet from the dish but not at the distances we are talking about.

[Cementjungle]

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.

That was my thought too. A USS Cole incident at sea I suspect. I wonder how close to our ships we're going to let them get before we repel them.

[lafroste]

You may be correct, but sailor friends of mine have described cooking seagulls in mid-flight by playing with the radar focus. I assumed that these boats were in close enough for that same effect to be realized. Of course, I am no expert on electromagnetic radiation.

[Doctor Raoul]

That boat could have been filled with explosives like the one that attacked the Cole.

[dr_lew]

Having a hard time figuring out why that didn’t happen.

OTOH, it's just as well that it didn't, don't you think? I don't think we really lost anything here. Well, there was that "evasive action" business, but I find it hard to picture this from the video. To me, they've got to be thinking, "We got away with it this time, but what about next time?"

[vpintheak]

I was about 10 feet from one of those during a live fire demonstration this past spring on a Tiger cruise with my brother. My video camera shook and I felt a shock wave hit me. It was awesome!

[Doctor Raoul]

You can't divert all the transmitter power from the AN/SPY-1 radar. You still have to do your air search and horizen search.

Now pointing an illuminator at them, maybe. If they still have the MK-99s. I think that there was a plan to change the SM-2 missiles to work off a AN/SPY-1 illuminator beam, but that was a previous life, long ago and far away so my memory may be wrong.

[dr_lew]

This is like a thief walking into my home, ...

It's more like some kids harassing you while you're walking in the park, isn't it?

[SuziQ]

Two of those goobers almost ran into each other on the starboard side of that trailing ship. Would have served them right.

I think the US handled it just right. We now have video of their actions, and our warnings. If they try to get any closer next time, a shot across their bows would be a good warning. After that, if they continue approaching, they should be blown out of the water, all on tape, of course.

[BigBobber]

I don't know how close air support is for one of those warships but I bets it's not far away. I would think that even a thousand small boats out on the open water would be sitting ducks for a buch of choppers decked out with those heavy duty gattling guns.

Right on. Here is the anti-ship technology we used 60 years ago against a similar bunch of Nazis.

U-boat under attack.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

A former Navigation Officer on a US Warship posted his opinion on this and said they did the right thing in his opinion. I’ll take his assessment over yours.

[Wilum]

My first squadron commander took out two with his drop tanks from his F100D returning from a CAS mission. He was always flying on lox and alcohol!

[SlowBoat407]

I miss these guys.

[onedoug]

I recall that we would never endure a nuclear North Korea. Well, NK has developed n-weapons technology and is selling it.

From the standpoint of delaying the inevitable however, the NO, and you, may be right.