Posted on 05/08/2010 8:29:07 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
In Phases Two and Three of Iran's biggest sea exercise ever (May 6-7), debkafile's military sources report its Navy and Revolutionary Guards acted out a scenario for driving US naval forces out of the Persian Gulf after defeating them - as well as responding to potential retaliatory American WMD strikes. Thursday night, May 6, Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki meanwhile informed the 15 Security Council members he invited to dinner at UN headquarters, New York, that his government would "definitely continue its nuclear program." They all attended including a low-ranking US official. The eight-day war game, dubbed "The Last Prophet" or "Judgment Day," spans a 250,000-kilometer area from the strategic Hormuz Strait to the Gulf of Aden, with the accent for the first time on the Indian Ocean.
Iran has mobilized the best part of its naval, air, commando and elite forces for a drill whose codenames signal its goals: Simulating Iran's perception of its final battle with America and its ending with US forces beaten and put to flight from the regions covered by the exercise. Thereupon, a victorious Islamic Republic of Iran is seen as assuming the role of regional superpower.
Iranian officials told observers from neighboring countries that Persian Gulf security can be achieved without a "foreign military presence" in the strategic waters. The Iranian Navy, they said, had demonstrated its fitness for sole responsibility over the security of the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the world's crude is channeled to market. The war game's spokesman, Rear Admiral Qasem Rostamabadi, disclosed: "Passing ships were successfully checked by destroyers, frigates, special operations teams and naval commandos in line with the goal of establishing security and peace in transit routes bound for the Hormuz Strait and the Persian
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Thanks for the heads up!
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We need the A/C’s to carry several super-fast small boats that can maneuver and counter the Iran boats and take them down. Hell they would have room for them. That or start installing more man-operated gun turrets on all our vessels so they at least can have a lot more shot at them, missiles or projectiles or whatever. Put a couple extra hellfire turrets in strategic places for these speedboats. Something that can reach out and touch them well before they’re close to detonate against the ships or launch torpedos.
AKA "targets."
ROFLOL...bring it on nutjob!
Its all right.
How about superfast minijet uavs armed with 20 pounds of c4? KA BOOM time only we’ll finally get some return on investment for all the playstation 3 geeks.
I cant tell which test is that from but its a multi megaton blast
Sorry FRiend, but that is less than I used to cook my C-Rats on over a years period.
See my couple of posts befor your's! :=)
And please don't kill me!
A delusional pipe dream of a tin horn dictator.
I agree.
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