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Iran sending warships close to US borders
Associated Press ^ | 2-8-14 | AP

Posted on 02/08/2014 9:34:42 AM PST by dynachrome

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To: MeshugeMikey

Those 6 stick their feet out the back of the vessel to utilize their kick propulsion...and get 5 knots of speed..


21 posted on 02/08/2014 9:48:56 AM PST by Fedupwithit (Your opinion: It's all yours....don't expect me to listen to it, or even acknowledge it..)
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To: Mouton

A container ship with missle launchers could easily get close enough.


22 posted on 02/08/2014 9:49:24 AM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Despot of the Delta
“You can bet, there’s a Virginia class with firing solutions on ever damn ship.”

We could use a few more artificial reefs for scuba diving.

23 posted on 02/08/2014 9:49:58 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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To: Despot of the Delta

“You can bet, there’s a Virginia class with firing solutions on ever damn ship.”

And you can bet that they would NEVER get the order to fire.
Obastard would never fire on his fellow travelers.


24 posted on 02/08/2014 9:50:02 AM PST by CapnJack
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To: MeshugeMikey

Del subs are inherently quiet. If your job is to sneak nuclear mines into a country, they’re the tool.


25 posted on 02/08/2014 9:50:38 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Jim Robinson

I’d be more concerned about a mini sub with a suitcase.


26 posted on 02/08/2014 9:51:23 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: alloysteel

Your point is well taken. Still, nuke missiles don’t require advanced air craft carriers or large battleships to launch. (And the Iranians have been building longer and longer range missiles these last five years anyway).


27 posted on 02/08/2014 9:51:28 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: BuffaloJack
If it were anyone but the boy emperor in office, we’d be looking at this as an opportunity to test out our coastal defenses and use up some torpedoes.

To expensive, Navy Seal training exercise and Limpet Mines. Hey I wonder if Henry Limpet is still available for duty?

28 posted on 02/08/2014 9:51:42 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Used for espionage.


29 posted on 02/08/2014 9:55:27 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Mmogamer

Ironic. I live close to the coast, on an island. I’ve wondered what would happen if say some wacko group of fanatics approached the coast in a large suicide mission, landed, and move ashore here. While some of us have some degree of firepower, we don’t have the ability to withstand a paramilitary assault. Could we count on the central government to repel these invaders? With this joker in charge, I would not wait for it to happen. By the time he decided to do something, they would be approaching Alabama.

Which brings this joke to mind. The inventory manager at Walmart noted there were no available ammo supplies in all the stores in Alabama. He called his state distribution manager and asked why there was no ammo in Alabama. The distribution manager said, have you not heard, the Ruskies took Georgia but they are damn well not going to take Alabama without a strong fight.


30 posted on 02/08/2014 9:56:11 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: dynachrome


Maybe we should send Old Ironsides to meet them, but that would be too uneven in our favor.
31 posted on 02/08/2014 10:00:51 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: dynachrome

If Iran is smart they’ll attack us at 3AM. Nobody answers the phone at that time.


32 posted on 02/08/2014 10:02:06 AM PST by McGruff (Every night has it's dawn.)
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To: Mouton

They must still be replacing the screen doors on their Subs.
They might as well of sent two kids in a sail boat with a cell phone!
Those idiots don’t know the US Navy prob knows how many hairs are on the Captains arms>


33 posted on 02/08/2014 10:03:07 AM PST by DocJhn
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To: Rumplemeyer

Probably VZ or Cuba for a fill up.


34 posted on 02/08/2014 10:03:11 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: dynachrome

I’d yell “SINK THE BASTARDS!” but we all know Obama’s nothing more than a muslim ass-kissing marxist who hates the United States of America.


35 posted on 02/08/2014 10:03:36 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Mouton

I’ve often wondered, what if the Chi-coms sent a couple of container ships full of troops and supplies to Cali? It would be pretty hard to dislodge them once they got dug in.


36 posted on 02/08/2014 10:04:11 AM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: dynachrome
Good Target ID chance and target practice time, all but releasing the Fish, for the Bubble heads.
37 posted on 02/08/2014 10:07:42 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: BuffaloJack

They should get into a squall line at night in the middle of the high seas and all just go silent simultaneously as we make them “disappear”...


38 posted on 02/08/2014 10:10:08 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: dynachrome

DISTURBING: The List of Purged Military High Officers Under Obama:

http://conservativeangle.com/disturbing-the-complete-list-of-purged-military-high-officers-under-obama/


39 posted on 02/08/2014 10:10:39 AM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: USS Alaska

Looks like they are preparing to launch the dreaded “sofa missile”.


40 posted on 02/08/2014 10:13:17 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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