‘Friendly fire’ naval accident reported in Iran

Twitchy ^ | May 10, 2020 | Greg P.

[McGruff]

There are reports out of Iran of a “friendly fire” accident of some sort where an Iranian destroyer has sunk a second Iranian naval vessel:

At Iran's Navy exercise: "Jamaran" destroyer mistakenly has shot and sank Kenarak frigate, killing more than 40. Bodies of 22 have been found. Injured are transferred to Chabahar hospitals.#IranTruth

Quoted source claims: "News about sinking of the Kenarak frigate is accurate"

[PIF]

More here:
Here's All That's Left Of Iranian Navy Ship Struck By Missile In Friendly Fire Tragedy
The naval support ship was laying targets for a training exercise when an anti-ship missile fired from an Iranian frigate slammed into it.
By Tyler Rogoway May 11, 2020

[Joe Boucher]

Sank their own ship?
Must be training with the Russians.

[Manly Warrior]

93 ish uprising. Saddam drained the delta, moved the surviving Arabs into Basrah.

The confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris is called Shat Al Arab, flows through SE Iraq and borders Kuwait and Iran. KSA has no border with the delta, Kuwait is in the way.

Spent a awhile thereabout in 2003. Brit sector during OIF. Nice people, except for the ones wanting to kill us.

[Diogenesis]

[McGruff]

The naval support ship was laying targets for a training exercise...

[cloudmountain]

Weren’t the Marsh wetlands in Iraq drained by Saddam Husein ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draining_of_the_Mesopotamian_Marshes

Hussein had part of them drained to get rid of the Marsh Arabs--to punish them for their role in the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein's government.

Apparently things were more complicated than one might think.

[cloudmountain]

I hope it was a Los Angeles class that ate it. Message sent and received.

What is a "Los Angeles class"??

[Salvavida]

Your search engine would have revealed it is a 688 attack submarine.

[cloudmountain]

Your search engine would have revealed it is a 688 attack submarine.

I looked it up.

WikipediaThe Los Angeles class boats are nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (SSN) in service with the United States Navy. The submarines are also known as the 688 class (pronounced "Six-Eighty-Eight"), after the hull number of lead vessel USS Los Angeles (SSN-688). They represent two generations and close to half a century of the Navy's attack submarine fleet. As of 2018, 35 of the class are still in commission and 27 are retired from service. Of the 27 retired boats, 12 were laid up half way (about 20 years or less) through their projected lifespans, and another five also laid up early (20–25 years), due to their midlife reactor refueling being cancelled, and one was lost due to a fire.

Seven have been scrapped and two are being converted to moored training ships. A further four boats were proposed by the Navy, but later cancelled.

The class has more active nuclear submarines than any other class in the world. Submarines of this class are named after American towns and cities, such as Albany, New York; Los Angeles, California; and Tucson, Arizona, with the exception of USS Hyman G. Rickover, named after a US Navy Admiral. This was a change from long-standing tradition of naming attack submarines after marine animals, such as USS Seawolf or USS Shark.

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It cost $900 million, ($1.56 billion in 2018 dollars).
It's worth every nickel!