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Iran Is Readying A 'Nightmare Scenario' For The US Navy
Business Insider ^ | 7-27-12 | Robert Johnson

Posted on 07/27/2012 1:11:47 PM PDT by Dysart

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To: Dysart

what a crock. you really think the USN is going to sit there and wait? 30 minutes after the war starts 80% of the Iranian assets will be slag.

Reminds me of Dan Rather on the eve of the Iraq war going on and on about how powerful Iraq was, how their artillery was so much better than ours blah da lib blah blah. How did that work out ?


21 posted on 07/27/2012 1:38:27 PM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: SJSAMPLE

A carrier would have a couple launcher pods of RAM missles plus 3 more Phalanx gun pods. Ya gotta hope the screening force would thin the herd a bit before the carrier would need to worry about them. :)


22 posted on 07/27/2012 1:40:12 PM PDT by Daus
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To: Daus

I would hope so, but I have no doubt that Iran is able to muster a virtually unlimited number of suicidal conscripts. Better safe than sorry.


23 posted on 07/27/2012 1:41:31 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“shootmeplease.net”?!

:-D


24 posted on 07/27/2012 1:44:01 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Dysart

I’m looking for a “Persian Gulf of Tonkin Incident” long about October, at the latest.


25 posted on 07/27/2012 1:44:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Billthedrill

They are planning to get 72 virgins on eternal R&R.


26 posted on 07/27/2012 1:45:37 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Dysart

Funny but those boats don;t look like they can stand up against a tactical nuke....


27 posted on 07/27/2012 1:45:50 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: cuban leaf

Cool tour. The stairs were a little spooky though.


28 posted on 07/27/2012 1:46:09 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Too many thinking Freepers have left the building...)
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To: Dysart

We should never underestimate an enemy. The military knows that, but I’m not sure that Obambi knows it. If the imams manage to inflict significant damage/casualties on a major US warship I would think that Iran’s economy for the immediate future would be, as another freeper once put it, “measured in cave paintings.”


29 posted on 07/27/2012 1:49:31 PM PDT by rex regnum insanit (falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus)
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To: Dysart

Waves of dead rag heads pal... that is all that you are seeing here.

LLS


30 posted on 07/27/2012 1:54:19 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: cuban leaf

During the first Iraq war our A-10s and F-16s and the Navy Hornets went on a virtual cost free killing spree. They created the “Highway of Death for Sadamn’s tanks” Boats are a lot easier to kill than tanks.

Our AWACs will know where each and everyone boat is when they leave port. Those small boats will die on the ocean and there will be no port for them to return to.

I think this is the October surprise planned by Obama to win re-election. Obama is a despicable man.


31 posted on 07/27/2012 1:58:26 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Daus; SJSAMPLE
A carrier would have a couple launcher pods of RAM missles plus 3 more Phalanx gun pods. Ya gotta hope the screening force would thin the herd a bit before the carrier would need to worry about them. The SeaRAM and CIWS are only of use if they can "see" to shoot.

The traffic lane in the SOH is narrow enough that a disguised vessel(s) outside the lanes but inside Iranian waters armed with a hidden Russian made gatlin gun could within a few seconds preemptively blind the radar sets of every port, or starboard looking SeaRAM and CIWS on a carrier.

32 posted on 07/27/2012 2:01:43 PM PDT by fso301
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To: rex regnum insanit
If the imams manage to inflict significant damage/casualties on a major US warship I would think that Iran’s economy for the immediate future would be, as another freeper once put it, “measured in cave paintings.”

The reaction wouldn't be pretty, and would afford Obama The Oppressive to look god again. I have to wonder if the reaction would be the same were the damage inflicted by their mines. Can think of no reason why the method would matter in the response. They must recognize that.

33 posted on 07/27/2012 2:02:42 PM PDT by Dysart (You didn't post that. Someone else made that happen.)
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To: Dysart

“Iran said to have hundreds of these babies ready to attack in wave”

We have a few of these that might be able to stop a couple of them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdp9llrBLnA


34 posted on 07/27/2012 2:12:12 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (ABO 2012)
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To: LibLieSlayer
Waves of dead rag heads pal

They aren't rags, they are sheets.

35 posted on 07/27/2012 2:12:17 PM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: rex regnum insanit
We should never underestimate an enemy.

Correct. The naval battles during the Russo-Japanese War prove your point. No one expected the Russian fleet to be humiliated by a supposedly inferior Asian power.

America is not Russia, and Iran is not Japan. But still the lesson is there.

36 posted on 07/27/2012 2:14:33 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern? you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: hattend

I put on the swami’s turban and predict—some limited success from Shore Launched Rockets and such and maybe a little from a few attack boats. They may sink a capital ship or two but then the full might of the USA will hit them like a steel monsoon of death. The Iranian coast will be occupied—in the end the Mullahs will be swept from power and a new Monarchy set up. The war—will be a full one and have several fronts—even including actions in the USA. One year of fighting at most—if anything—it will resemble the Spanish -American war of 1898.


37 posted on 07/27/2012 2:15:47 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Dysart

A few points:

1) Quantity has a quality all its own. Just like with an assassination, if you’re not too worried about a successful egress, then all they need to do is get a few of those boats close enough to a carrier or a cruiser, and we lose the PR war even if we take out 95% of those floating subway cars.

2) I’m sure that they have a few tricks up their sleeve that we don’t know about, or don’t take seriously enough. Just remember, the Israelis were completely surprised in 1973, and though they eventually won (with a lot of material help from us), their reputation took a beating and they ended up losing territories in negotiations. Again, it is the PR war that matters the most in the end, because Iran isn’t going to defeat us any more than the NVs were going to.

3) Yes, I know, our Navy is the very best out there, and not by a small margin. I take nothing away from the Navy, esp. since my father was a vet. We, too, have things up our sleeves that the Iranians don’t know anything about.

4) I am far more concerned about what Iran is capable of doing away from the Gulf. These range from massive terrorist attacks nationwide (or, for that matter, worldwide), to unleasing Hezbollah and its 60,000+ rockets on Israel (and starting a general Mideast War), to sending a nuke from a cargo ship stationed off our shores up in a rocket and exploding it 100-200 miles above our territory - the resulting EMP would devastate our electrical grid for YEARS, possibly leading to literally millions of deaths in short order (think: no working refineries, fuel pumps, hospitals, food delivery, refrigeration, etc.). Yes, we could turn large parts of their nation into a parking lot, but that wouldn’t help much with the damage at home.

Bottom line - though we could easily devastate their armed forces or country if sufficiently provoked, we should not underestimate them. Bluster might feel better, but taking an enemy seriously is far more rational.


38 posted on 07/27/2012 2:26:17 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: Dysart
Never underestimate an enemy.

History is full of small ships doing damage and winning battles against larger, more sophisticated ships. Prepare for any attack you can imagine.
39 posted on 07/27/2012 2:26:31 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: Dysart; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; ..
What is troubling to me is that The Obamanation... would happily expend one or two of our carriers and many thousand servicemen's lives to get re-elected.
40 posted on 07/27/2012 2:26:40 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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