Damn straight! How big are these boats, will Harpoons work?
Posted on 08/25/2016 12:22:33 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
Yesterday, we reported that four Iranian ships carried out a "high speed intercept" of a US destroyer, the USS Nitze, in the Strait of Hormuz, an incident that the official dubbed "unsafe and unprofessional", cited by Reuters. The four vessels belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "harassed" a U.S. destroyer on Tuesday by carrying out a "high speed intercept" in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. Defense official said on Wednesday.
Moments ago, CNN reported that in a separate incident, A US Navy ship fired three warning shots after a "harassing" Iranian fast-attack craft approached and circled two U.S. Navy ships and a Kuwaiti vessel in the northern Gulf on Wednesday. It said the U.S. ship fired the shots into the water after the Iranian ship did not leave after a brief radio conversation, according to U.S. officials.
The Iranian ship reportedly circled the U.S. ships, coming within 200 yards of the vessels, and would not leave the area. The U.S. Navy ships then fired several warning flares and attempted to make radio contact with the Iranian ship. After a brief radio exchange, the Iranians refused to leave, CNN reported, forcing the U.S. Navy ships to follow defensive maritime procedures and fire three warning shots at the Iranian vessel.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Obama's foreign policy is working everywhere.
I don’t respect Hussein either. Where do I go to get my $1.3 billions?
Iranian Air Defense Radar: ‘Unknown aircraft at (location unknown), you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.’
Aircraft: ‘This is a United States aircraft. I am not in Iranian airspace, I am in Iraqi airspace.’
Iranian Air Defense Radar: ‘You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft!’
Aircraft: ‘This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send ‘em up, I’ll wait!’
Iranian Air Defense Radar: (no response .... total silence)
Sink the bastards.
water cannon - swamp them and let the sharks sort them out
Warning shots hell! Sink the Bastards!
obama, Kerry, - quick...the RED LINE before someone gets hurt!
Shouldn’t we pay them a billion dollar non-ransom for NOT boarding our ship? What in the world were those sailors thinking firing warning shots? They blew Obama’s scheme to fork over that billion.
With blanks?...
Damn straight! How big are these boats, will Harpoons work?
Saw the video yesterday. They looked like low angle warning flares.
They’ve already spent those billions??
I rather be a rogue country and sink such boats.
3 warning shots.
At four Iranian ships carrying out a “high speed intercept.”
Now, I am not in the Navy, nor was I ever, nor do I play a Naval Officer on TV. However, the thing with big guns (and the 5’54” guns are big) is that they have a relatively low rate of fire. IOW, perhaps they wouldn’t be such a big deterrent. If’n I were the captain of that destroyer, I’d have been far more tempted to use the Phalanx CIWS for my warning shots - because that system is FAR more able to take out 4 fast boats quickly. That’s the system that you’d most likely use to actually defend the ship with, so why not use it for warning shots?
Too bad they missed.
They really like them when captured.
“Unprofessional...” Yeah, I bet they care about that.
During the Cuban missile crisis, a Soviet freighter was rapidly approaching the ‘picket line’ around Cuba. The picket commander asked the Joint Chiefs what he was supposed to do if the freighter didn’t stop. The flash message back from JCS to the picket commander was, “If he doesn’t stop, sink him.”
The response today would be more like, “Draw a red line in the water and tell him not to cross it. If he crosses, we’ll”... (signal lost).
Shoulda sunk the MFers
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