Iranian boats approach Centcom commander's ship

CNN ^ | July 12, 2016 | Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent

[wally_bert]

Isn’t the Persian Gulf too shallow for large nuclear subs to be effective?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It's shallow but still reachable via sub launched missile.
Torpedoes are passe

[allendale]

Those missiles are spread, hidden and have a flight time of less than 30 seconds to target.They would be hard to destroy on the ground even if their locations were known.

[gigster]

What’s the effective range of a .50 Cal Ma Duece?

[gigster]

if the commander got a wild hare... Don't bring Bugs into this discussion...

[Freeport]

Someone want to tell me why there’s no ‘Smoke on the water’?

[Georgia Girl 2]

A .50 cal isn’t going to take down a US Naval warship. Get real.

First its taunting. The Iranians do it all the time. If they had been so misguided as to attempt to fire on a US naval warship from 500 yards or 2,000 yards they would find themselves sitting on the bottom of the gulf in short order.

Basically it was a non event.

[gigster]

I was hypothetically talking about us taking out the rag-head camel-jockeys, or should I have put up a /Sarc tag? I know a fifty caliber machine gun won’t take out a navy ship, but I do know their effective range is about +- two thousand yards.

[gigster]

Has the Landlubber CIC mandated U.S. Navy ships to fly the rainbow ensign yet?

[gigster]

Iranians respect our navy probably the same way they respected our untrained and unprepared naval craft that they captured without any fight whatsoever.

[elephantlips]

They are no match for the USS New Orleans. It would be a short battle.

[Chode]

CVN escorts need hipower microwave, full spectrum radio and directional EMP area denial tools