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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Japan is going to mount suicide attacks on Iran?
“Prepares for” or trains for? Sheesh!
Wonder how that worked for Japan?
Oh yeh, they lost just like Iran would.
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.
That is what I thought, but because of rules of engagment we can’t fire until fired upon.
Yep, I remember having to wear the earplugs when you were on deck and that thing let rip.
Bring on the kamikazes.
Allahu FUBAR!
After the Cole incident, I am doubtful that their ‘speedboats’ will get close enough to do any crippling damage. And if (highly unlikely) a plane can get past the Navy/USAF jets, it still has to deal with anti-missle/Phalanx systems.
Let them try. The sooner we end these POS idiots, the better for the world. This crap has been going on since Carter. Enough.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
And a prepared carrier group ;)
I agree. It will be one hell of a firefight.
Wasn’t Obama pretty ticked off at our SEALs because they made a rescue from Somali pirates even though he told them not to? And didn’t Panetta say at one point that he gave the order for the SEALs to go ahead with the Bin Laden assassination against Obama’s wishes?
Obama has flipped the bird at our military men so many times he should expect them to flip him right back, when the nation’s security is on the line - especially since Judge Denise Lind ruled that the lawfulness of combat orders has nothing to do with being authorized by the President. Whichever guy has seniority among those who sees a kamikaze coming has only to say, “Shoot” and that’s all the more authorization anybody needs - if what Denise Lind ruled in the court-martial against Terry Lakin actually counts for anything.
Stick it in your ear, Obama. What goes around comes around.
I remember back when Iran first suggested using mass speedboat attacks. The USN harrumphed some concern, then soon announced “no problem”, in soft tones. I assume that, send a hundred or send a thousand, it won’t matter.
They will become little more than finely chopped flotsam.
I think the biggest mistake we made was holding back the “Shock and Awe” in Iraq. Granted, it was impressive, but since all muslims understand is violence, I am of full belief that we visit enough on them at one time to melt gun barrels and burn up jet engines.
Reducing the Iranian military by 100% would be a good start. Then we could get serious about it. God knows we have it within our power. We just lack leadership with a sense of justice, logical foreign policy right and wrong.
There is a slight addition to the speedboats. Iran has a large amount of mini-subs that were purchased from North Korea.Ghadir class and Yono class mini submarines to be exact.A Yono class submarine was involved in the Cheonen affair in the Korean peninsula.
Obama keeps claiming credit for Osama.
But think about it a little more. When the military and intel laid it out,, and said “there he is”.
In effect, it was telling him,, “if you don’t act, soon, we will tell the world that you know where he is, and won’t act. They had him in a corner,, Obama gets no credit for anything. He was dragged kicking and screaming. The Military and intel know for a few months where he was, got tired of Obama BS, and forced his hand.
HOZE-EM!!! 
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).
An impenetrable wall of metal basically from what I gather.
Cheers!
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.
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?
“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?
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.
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)?
“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.
At the rate those things fire, I bet its not more than 20 minutes.
RE post 19. Precisely.
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.
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.
You broke the code that launches the attacks. Good work!
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.
Cheers!
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.
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.
Sacrificial lamb ? False flag ?
I would hope that each ship has at least twenty Marines with .50 cal machine guns for final-stage defense.
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.
And then there is the US Cole rule:
rules of engagment: we can’t fire until fired upon, and all weapons to be kept unloaded and ammo in locked magazines.
Will Zero bring it back for these upcoming “special occasions”?
The big E is set to leave norfolk for the gulf this week.
Sacrificial lamb ? False flag ?
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Fire sale. We need the money and Zero sold it to the Iranians.
They will take possession when it arrives in port. The smuggled Russian navalized SUs will be load up. Russian piolts debarked in Syria from the aircraft carrier than just left will do the flying under Iranian colors a la the Korean war.
The shinny new Russian early warning radar installed in Syria will do the tracking from the Med to the Golan to Saudia Arabia.
The Chinese navy will man the Iranian minisubs with token Iranian navy personel aboard.
The problem is if they swarm and run the Phalanx out of ammo. Hopefully they will be detected several miles away and taken out with Cobra attack helos.
a) the Phalanx is the only defensive weapon which will be brought to bear
b) the carrier won't make tracks at 30 knots away from the speedboats
c) speedboats 21-40 are going to be at *all* eager to continue pressing the assault after watching their friends being turned into a red mist to absolutely *NO* effect on the Americans.
Cheers!
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