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Iran prepares for kamikaze attacks
WND ^ | 2/24/2012 | Reza Kahlili

Posted on 02/26/2012 7:18:11 PM PST by U-238

Even as it continued to talk with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Iran continued to prepare for war over its nuclear weapons program, training for kamikaze attacks in the Persian Gulf with both planes and speedboats, sources within the Iranian armed forces report.

Ads by GooglePeople Search-Search Free 1) Enter Any Name & Search Free! 2) Get Phone, Address, Age & More. www.intelius.comA 9mm is False Protection Discover What Survivalist Masters & The Army Don't Want You To Know www.CloseCombatTraining.comTuesday the International Atomic Energy Agency called its recent talks with Iran a failure. And just days before, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered the Revolutionary Guards, along with the army, on high alert, ready with conventional and unconventional means to respond to any aggression by the U.S. or Israel over its nuclear weapons program, the sources say.

The Guards’ missile commanders, in their preparation for a fierce counterattack, have mapped out all U.S. bases in the region to strike with their missiles in order to disrupt America’s air sorties, believing they will be the main thrust of any attack by America.

The Guards’ publication Mashregh, in a warning to America, revealed a detailed plan to attack U.S. bases in the region, including, in Kuwait, two air bases, Ali Al Salem and Ahmed Al Jaber, and the U.S. military camps of Buehring, Spearhead, Patriot and Arifjan. Also targeted are U.S. air bases in Afghanistan, the super U.S. base Al Adid in Qatar, its other super base at Al Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates and Thumrait Air Base in Oman.

Guards’ plans include the launch of ballistic missiles at the narrow Strait of Hormuz from deep within Iran to disrupt the flow of oil and destabilize the world economy.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fifthfleet; iran; irgc; persiangulf; straitofhormuz
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To: Ouderkirk

How does the Phalanx target inbound sea and air bad guys if there were 50 or 60 coming at once? Closest first? Airborne or sea first? Computers run all of the targeting? Thanks in advance. (Those Phalanx jobs sure beat the old 20mm, 40mm, and quad .50 cals from the few short vieos I have seen).


21 posted on 02/26/2012 7:58:49 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it doesn't get any better than that!)
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To: bobby.223

An impenetrable wall of metal basically from what I gather.


22 posted on 02/26/2012 8:01:14 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Normie: Wandering Druid, Cult of Palin)
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To: bobby.223
I have seen DoD briefings from contractors which adequately assure me that targeting will not be a problem until we run out of ammo.

Cheers!

23 posted on 02/26/2012 8:02:09 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: DesertRhino

And for doing that, the SEALs got their details blabbed all over and 22 from that SEALs team were shot down/killed at once by the Taliban less than 2 months later.

After the Obama people refusing to show any proof that Bin Laden was dead, staging a photo of everybody looking intently at a screen, changing the details of the story, and generally acting about as credible on this issue as they’ve been on the eligibility issue, Fast & Furious, Solyndra, or any number of other issues, those SEALs being shot down at that particular time seemed a little too convenient...

I suppose in Heaven we won’t much care about what we’ve already been through, but I sure hope I will one day get some real answers about what’s been going on, because I sure as heck don’t trust the answers the idiots in charge are giving us.


24 posted on 02/26/2012 8:15:45 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: Norm Lenhart
And if (highly unlikely) a plane can get past the Navy/USAF jets, it still has to deal with anti-missile/Phalanx systems.

That is if 0bummer doesn't have them eliminated on the basis of giving an unfair advantage to a "super power" against an inferior enemy. After reducing our nuclear arsenal by 80%, who knows what's next?

25 posted on 02/26/2012 8:22:56 PM PST by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: grey_whiskers

“I have seen DoD briefings from contractors which adequately assure me that targeting will not be a problem until we run out of ammo.”

Forgive me for asking an impertinent question, but how long can those things work before they run out of ammo?


26 posted on 02/26/2012 8:23:20 PM PST by Road Glide
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To: Just another Joe
"Wonder how that worked for Japan?"

They lost two cities to crude, very small atomic bombs. One Trident missile (not one salvo, one missile) could totally destroy every major to mid-level city in Iran.

27 posted on 02/26/2012 8:25:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: grey_whiskers
I have seen DoD briefings from contractors which adequately assure me that targeting will not be a problem until we run out of ammo.

What happens when a wave of suicide boats comes in equipped with multiple rocket launcher tubes and each rocket is a chaff/flare dispenser? If when just beyond range of the MK-38 (25mm) each wave of boats begins firing the chaff/flares ahead of them a few hundred meters, can they continue advancing in the shadow of the chaff cloud(s)?

28 posted on 02/26/2012 8:27:19 PM PST by fso301
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To: bobby.223

“How does the Phalanx target inbound sea and air bad guys if there were 50 or 60 coming at once?”

It basically gets them all at once. Imagine a solid wall of armor piercing rounds — 4,500 rounds a minute or so. R2-D2 is a nasty little beast.


29 posted on 02/26/2012 8:28:59 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: Road Glide

At the rate those things fire, I bet its not more than 20 minutes.


30 posted on 02/26/2012 8:29:58 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: DesertRhino

RE post 19. Precisely.


31 posted on 02/26/2012 8:39:33 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: luvbach1

Hopefully he’ll be unemployed before they even process the paperwork on the nukes, much less do anything to dismantle them. As for the rest, I can’t see the military going along once the bullets start flying.

They will only accept so much and I don’t think any are that suicidal. At least I hope not.


32 posted on 02/26/2012 8:42:14 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Normie: Wandering Druid, Cult of Palin)
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To: Ouderkirk
I worked on the Phalanx Program....open up with one of those on one of those “speed boats” or an airplane there won’t be much left of it, if it even gets to within 100 yards of a US ship. It will be splinters a half mile out.

The question is how fast can you reload a Phalanx after it has shot off its magazine? How much ammunition does a destroyer/frigate carry? If the Iranians target 100 speedboats at a destroyer/frigate, can you get them all? 200? 300? I hear the Iranians are talking about 300 boat attacks.

Imagine a destroyer with its Phalanx dry and unable to reload because Iranian sharpshooters make it impossible for the crew to reach the equipment. Or can the Phalanx be reloaded without the crew exposing itself? Since I'm not sure of the mechanics of the reloading process I don't know if this can be a problem. The only picture I've seen shows 7 crewmen with one long belt of ammunition draped over their shoulders as they reload. Looks very slow.

33 posted on 02/27/2012 12:49:50 AM PST by Cheburashka (If life hands you lemons, government regulations will prevent you from making lemonade.)
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To: U-238
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You broke the code that launches the attacks. Good work!

34 posted on 02/27/2012 2:24:13 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum (If Obama was any more thin skinned, he'd have a receptacle end: Dennis Miller)
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To: Cheburashka
“destroyer with its Phalanx dry “

If the weapon cannot be reload from below deck, then some idiot forgot that Navy ships are equipped to fight in a Chemical or Nuclear environment.

35 posted on 02/27/2012 3:55:49 AM PST by Makana
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To: fso301; Road Glide
"Loose Lips Sink Ships."

Cheers!

36 posted on 02/27/2012 4:18:55 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Ouderkirk
I worked on the Phalanx Program....open up with one of those on one of those “speed boats” or an airplane there won’t be much left of it,

Yes, a one second burst from a Phalanx will shred a speed boat, putting about 75 rounds per second down-range. The Phalanx has enough ammo for about 20 such bursts before its magazine is exhausted.

It then needs five minutes for the crew to swap in a fresh mag while they watch speed boats 21 thru 40 approaching.

37 posted on 02/27/2012 4:33:44 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: Cheburashka

If the Iranians target 100 speedboats at a destroyer/frigate, can you get them all? 200? 300? I hear the Iranians are talking about 300 boat attacks.


How about a 50 yr old aircraft carrier ? The big E is set to leave norfolk for the gulf this week.

Sacrificial lamb ? False flag ?


38 posted on 02/27/2012 4:40:38 AM PST by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: Cheburashka
The question is how fast can you reload a Phalanx after it has shot off its magazine? How much ammunition does a destroyer/frigate carry? If the Iranians target 100 speedboats at a destroyer/frigate, can you get them all? 200? 300? I hear the Iranians are talking about 300 boat attacks.

I would hope that each ship has at least twenty Marines with .50 cal machine guns for final-stage defense.

39 posted on 02/27/2012 4:45:52 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: maine yankee
How about a 50 yr old aircraft carrier ? The big E is set to leave norfolk for the gulf this week.

WW2-era warships had enough rapid-firing guns for anti-aircraft work that they would be invulnerable to low-tech speedboat attacks.

It would be nice if we had a cluster-munition that could scatter a few thousand grenade-size floating mines in front of the speedboat wave. Just the right size to destroy a speedboat, but harmless against a steel-hulled ship.

40 posted on 02/27/2012 4:54:33 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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