Posted on 12/13/2011 5:34:03 PM PST by jazusamo
Bring on cold-fusion! Who needs oil.
I guess maybe four hours would be needed to sink their entire navy. Maybe five.
As zer0 works hard to reverse this trend with moves like effectively killing Keystone, placing roadblocks to oil drilling in the gulf, Alaska.
I’d say your right on the money and the Straight would be off limits to their allies as of then.
Let’s see...How did that Suez crisis turn out. I was in third grade. I remember concluding at that young age that these arab folks were nuts. Haven’t change my mind.
Our bombing of their only refinery that produces gasoline might cear up the the strait.
Well said. In my lifetime we’ve not had another president work so hard against the USA, even Carter wasn’t close.
Since the Chinese are major customers and about 1/3 of their total supply goes through the Strait of Hormuz, they’ve got to be plenty pleased with their supplier. /s
Customer service? What’s that?
“What happens if the United States decides to ban Iranian ships from the strait? If the U.S. Navy closes the Hormuz, it will stay that way.”
Best statement in the article
Hey, another informed Obamamite.
All they have to do is sink a ship or two and the strait is closed..
The straits can be closed by land based artillery and missile batteries. The status of Iran’s navy is of little importance then.
They don’t even have to do anything. Just move units into position and announce on maritime channels that the straits are closed. No tanker captain is going to even try it.
Cruise missiles solve this problem or am I overly optimistic?
Potentially less useful than the scud hunt in western Iraq during the Gulf War. Which is to say that other than for diplomatic reasons, useless.
The missile units could easily be hidden in buildings in a twenty mile or more radius deploy, fire and be hidden again in less than ten minutes. A tanker could be laser targeted from the shore, eliminating even much of a radar signal to eliminate.
Then again, maybe the Iranians don’t move anything close. Just daring the tankers would be enough. Why risk assets that could be used against an American carrier fleet in that big bathtub called the Persian Gulf.
Given modern missile technology the US navy is nothing more than a giant floating target. Iranian and military sources note that the linkage Sorouri made between the capture of the RQ-170 and the naval drill in the Strait of Hormuz was intended to inform Washington that Tehran in possession of the drone no longer fears the ability of the naval air carriers the US has deployed in the Persian Gulf to prevent its closure of the strategic waterway.
Not new: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/washington/12navy.html
There is a reason American military officers express grim concern over the tactics used by Iranian sailors last weekend: a classified, $250 million war game in which small, agile speedboats swarmed a naval convoy to inflict devastating damage on more powerful warships.
In the days since the encounter with five Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz, American officers have acknowledged that they have been studying anew the lessons from a startling simulation conducted in August 2002. In that war game, the Blue Team navy, representing the United States, lost 16 major warships an aircraft carrier, cruisers and amphibious vessels when they were sunk to the bottom of the Persian Gulf in an attack that included swarming tactics by enemy speedboats.
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