Posted on 03/22/2014 3:01:57 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
My guess also. Practice for an attack.
Unless?
Wouldn’t any potential boarding party have to run the gauntlet of the screen of accompanying ships that make up a carrier group? That would take a set of extremely huge nads to pull that off.
Well we don't all have your vivid imagination I guess.
hijacking, bombing, underwater mine ops, decoy, etc.
Well, yes, not to mention that the flight deck is about 60 feet up off the water.
I wonder whether they’re building a low-tech carrier, maybe conventionally powered with a limited launch capability.
Just to try stuff out.
Remember they’re starting out. I think maybe they’re using another approach than other competitors.
Just a wild guess is all.
I suspect that the mockup is being used for developing image recognition software and systems for reconaissance satellites and guided missiles.
Hijack a carrier? You can use anything for a bombing target. Not sure what you mean by 'underwater mine ops' but if you mean that they're going to try and figure out how to attach a mine and sink it then they would have to duplicate the strength and structure of a Nimitz class carrier and you don't do that with a couple of barges welded together. Decoy for what, the other Iranian carriers?
You're not going to indulge us with your strategic brilliance and naval know-how, are you?
Right. Their only hope of even getting on board would be to stage an operation against the ship while it’s in port. At sea they’d never even get close.
Same reason USN built the Muroc Maru
http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=511
Send in the frogmen. Sink it one minute after it’s set afloat!
KENNY BUNK CAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION.
I hope they post the video to youtube. There will only be one take.
Sure. Makes perfect sense.
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