Posted on 12/29/2011 7:33:48 AM PST by blam
When the enemy is demonstrating all their capabilities and their techniques, it is extremely valuable to get as close as possible and monitor their activity. All the 'signals' of their weapons can then be more easily acquired.
I think the ‘concern’ is not that they could block the pathway, but that it is a ‘pinch-point’ where the moving ships are almost ‘sitting ducks’. They would be maneuvering around the flaming wrecks at slow speeds.
If you were being hunted, and you came to river with a footbridge, and there were dead bodies with arrows sticking out of them laying all over the bridge, would you cross it ?
Dream on. We’re not going to release nukes and hit an Iranian city over a CVN. Not under Obama, never.
Those that know, ain’t tellin’. Loose lips sink ships.
Those that speculate are doing just that. I know, I want to ask every seaman around if we can kick ass and just how much to worry about this stuff but it didn’t get me anywhere. So I read all day long.....Jane’s is a good place to start.
www.janes.com
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