>>”Wherever the Americans look in the Persian Gulf, they will see us”
As a submariner, I like that comment. We call that a target rich environment.
Fish barrel.
I wonder how they would feel about having NO NAVY at all?
Total Naval Strength: 398
Aircraft Carriers: 0
Frigates: 6
Destroyers: 0
Corvettes: 3
Submarines: 33
Coastal Defense Craft: 254
Mine Warfare: 5
how long to convert those subs to anchors?
9 + 33 = 42 bulls-eye targets(2 days or less?)
254 fishing boats-merchant marine vessels? (3 days or less?)
air superiority w/o russian intervention to prop them up?
12 hours. w/ russians helping 36-48 hours.
Potential ICBM sites taken out: 12 hours
missile silos targeted on Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia... 2 -3 weeks.
reset on the GREEN REVOLUTION riots... 45 days.
Internal coupe d’etat or collapse of regime: 60 days.
Clean up and rebuild... years... at THEIR expense and with the payments made in OIL. WE could make billions if not a couple of trillion.