Typhoon at NAB Little Creek.
Posted on 04/11/2008 9:54:50 AM PDT by drzz
Updates welcome. The story just showed up. Casus belli ?
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A warning shot would be a crusie missile through its main engine.
Iranian must feel that a skirmish with US would turn world opinion against US even further and thus they would have nothing to worry about.
I think as stupid as the world is, its not that stupid. They can see what game Iran is playing.
U R quick....
If Ahmadinejad gives us a casus belli, I will really LOVE the man.
Navy ship fired a flare to warn off the Iranian boat:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VVP9E82&show_article=1
http://cbs2chicago.com/national/iran.naval.confrontation.2.697662.html
The Navy says a ship encountered a small Iranian high-speed boat in the central Persian Gulf and warned it away by firing a flare.
Two other similar Iranian boats in the area did not come as close.
The USS Typhoon tried unsuccessfully to establish radio contact with the Iranian boat after it came within an estimated 200 yards of the Typhoon on Thursday, outside Iranian territorial waters. A Navy official says the ship then fired the flare and continued on its way without incident.
The official says there were no signs any boat was armed.
It was at least the second encounter with an aggressive Iranian high-speed boat this year.
Huh. Perhaps this is the Iranian Olympic rowing team? I just read today that Mahmoud Ahmadgenocide has accepted an invitation to attend the opening ceremonies in Beijing....
USS TYPHOON is the fifth CYCLONE - class patrol coastal boat. From November 2001 on, the CYCLONE - class ships were temporarily operated under US Coast Guard control for homeland defense.
General Characteristics: Awarded: August 3, 1990
Keel laid: May 15, 1992
Launched: March 3, 1993
Commissioned: February 12, 1994
Builder: Bollinger Machine Shop & Shipyard, Lockport, Louisiana
Propulsion system:4 Paxman diesels
Propellers: four
Length: 170 feet (51.8 meters)
Beam: 25 feet (7.6 meters)
Draft: 7.5 feet (2.3 meters)
Displacement: approx. 331 tons
Speed: 35 knots
Aircraft: none
Armament: 2 25mm Mk-38 machine guns; 2 .50 cal machine guns;
2 Mk-19 automatic grenade launchers; 6 stinger missiles
Homeport: Little Creek, Va.
Crew: 4 officers, 24 enlisted and 8 Special Forces personnel
Any Pictures?
Any Pictures?
They are testing to see how far they can get in before they go full speed for the final run up
It should have been sunk at 400 or more yards
OOPS sorry for the double post.
LET’S DO THIS!!!!!!
Gulf Ping!
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Typhoon at NAB Little Creek.
Just this from the files.....
Looks like the SS Minnow could take it in a fight.
Flare today, gone tomorrow
It's from another duty of the Typhoon
Oh wait, that’s the US boat! Then it has real guns, and Gilligan would be toast.
Looks like the genset injectors could use some work.
I’m guessing from the crew in whites and the large ensign they are returning from an extended underway.
Thanks. Kind of tiny. I thought my Dad’s WWII DDE was small.
Nope. Too similar to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Starting with the Hostage crises moving on to their forging of US currency their support to terrorists etc etc etc we have plenty of Casus belli, our political class has always lacked the will to act on them.
Its got 2 25mm chain guns. Will destroy anything that floats that is not armored.
“I’m guessing from the crew in whites and the large ensign they are returning from an extended underway.”
Wonder what they use for aux power. I really miss the detroit x71 motors.
THE LEADING MODERATOR OF FR JUST KILLED NEWS FROM JPOST SAYING THAT AN UPCOMING REPORT WAS ABOUT TO BE PUBLISHED STATING THAT SADDAM WMDS HAD BEEN MOVED TO SYRIA.
AS FREEREPUBLIC DOESN’T WANT TO SPREAD THE STORY (?!), PLEASE GO TO LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS WHERE THE STORY HAS BEEN SHOWN :
It will be a truely sad day when they finally take a shot and we lose 1 single life or damage a ship. If its a matter of not wanting to show our capabilities we should fly something in and destroy them. Letting them again and again, act provacatively within 200 yards is just insane.
How long before the phrase “Gulf of Tonken” comes up?
An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September 6 IAF strike on a Syrian facility will claim that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein transferred weapons of mass destruction to the country, Channel 2 stated Monday.
Couldn’t tell you. I went aboard one once but being a QM I was most interested in the pilothouse.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards trying to do the same thing to the USN that it did to Her Majesty’s Royal Navy.
Whut?
AS FREEREPUBLIC DOESN’T WANT TO SPREAD THE STORY (?!),
Stop spamming threads with this. FR carried the story last Monday (4/7):
Sounds like a good time to invest in glass bottom boats as Iran will need plenty after this so they can see their navy.
MMFireman striker to IC3. In civilian life lots of marine diesels, some surplus.
They fired nothing more than a flare.
You better listen to him. He’s typing in Caps.
Your post is still active. It was just removed from breaking news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000170/posts
I don’t know anything about “Tonken” but the Gulf of Tonkin is another story ;-)
Whenever, wherever this story has appeared...it needs to be repeated. Haven’t many of us always believed this to be true?
Interesting...hmmm
You're right -- sometimes I miss the most obvious clues.
No. Be alarmed if you must, but don’t be surprised if others don’t join in.
Here we go again.
The Iranians don’t learn. They messed with us in the Gulf before and they’re foolish enough to do it again.
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