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Video: How The US Navy Would React To A Iranian Fast Attack Boat
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| 04.22.2020
| Natalie Dagenhardt
Posted on 04/22/2020 9:40:46 AM PDT by USA Conservative
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It's about time we have a President who allows our Navy to defend itself.
To: USA Conservative
We need to vaporize one of these mosquito boats....that would be the end of this I suspect
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posted on
04/22/2020 9:44:25 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: USA Conservative
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posted on
04/22/2020 9:45:56 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: USA Conservative
I know little of Naval weapons but small boats should be able to carry devastating weapons something like RPGs or maybe something with a longer range.
On the other hand just about any warship should destroy those speed boats with ease.
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posted on
04/22/2020 9:45:59 AM PDT
by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: USA Conservative
Yes, the old hold your fire until fired upon really sucks.
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posted on
04/22/2020 9:46:11 AM PDT
by
exnavy
(american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
To: USA Conservative
I'll bet belting away with the deck guns is fun... However it looks like the Griffin missile system is quicker - more effective sooner and at a longer range. I wonder what those cost per round vs the hundreds of rounds expended through deck guns, or vs the cost of the target...
I think I'd like to be the guy driving the remotely piloted target boat. Full throttle, crossing target, zig-zagging to change the range nearly continuously... I think I could make it very hard to hit with a deck gun.
To: yarddog
The USS Cole came close to being sunk by a small boat
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posted on
04/22/2020 9:48:42 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: yarddog
Search youtube for Phalanx system.
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posted on
04/22/2020 9:48:43 AM PDT
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exnavy
(american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
To: USA Conservative
“MK 38 M242 Bushmaster canons, M2 machine guns, and close-in weapon systems”
I’m no expert, but that does not look like fine shooting. Looks like we threw a couple tons of ammo to get a couple of hits.
Why aren’t we using small, smart steerable missiles to home in on such a target? Do such things exist?
To: ProtectOurFreedom
50k in ammo 100million dollar ship and takes them 5 min to sink a 5k boat.
I posted this because I am surprised of how they miss the target lol
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posted on
04/22/2020 9:52:29 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: USA Conservative
I hate to say it, but the navy needs more marksmanship training - too many rounds fired, too few hits.
If those Iranians carry something more consequential than a .50, like a torpedo or a short-range missile, the sailors need to gets hits in early.
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posted on
04/22/2020 9:53:50 AM PDT
by
Chainmail
(Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
To: yarddog
On the other hand just about any warship should destroy those speed boats with ease.
One or two, yes.
200, not so much.
L
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posted on
04/22/2020 9:55:01 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: USA Conservative
Bingo. I was really UNIMPRESSED as you saw in my post. That was pathetic.
As a lay person, I would think it would take ONE shot to sink a boat like that with today’s modern, smart weaponry. But I guess I’m over-estimating the capabilities of our weapons.
To: yarddog
If the guys manning those gun are any indication of the Navy’s ability to destroy the fast attach boats, we are in trouble. Those guys put a lot of lead down range with little accuracy.
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posted on
04/22/2020 9:58:44 AM PDT
by
Edison
(I don't know what irks me more, the lying or the incompetence.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Im no expert, but that does not look like fine shooting. Looks like we threw a couple tons of ammo to get a couple of hits. My only hope is that it's propaganda to convince the Iranians that they can attack a US warship with impunity.
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posted on
04/22/2020 10:02:23 AM PDT
by
null and void
(By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
To: USA Conservative
You have to see this from the point of view of being on the small boat.
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posted on
04/22/2020 10:02:58 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It’s the motion of the ocean. Roll pitch and yaw on both the target and the shooting vessels. It would be much easier to target their bases.
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posted on
04/22/2020 10:05:04 AM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: USA Conservative
Not impressed. Needs just one YUGE explosion with nothing but a little debris left floating.
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posted on
04/22/2020 10:09:09 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: USA Conservative
"Nearly a dozen Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy vessels sailed out Wednesday to harass a collection of US Navy and Coast Guard vessels conducting operations in international waters"
The Iranian navy is awesome.
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