Posted on 08/10/2006 10:03:50 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
I was there...
We put two Harpoons missiles into the Sabalan...Blew the forward gun off its mount into the bridge of that puddle jumping piece of crapola...
One of our frigates zoomed into gun range and threw a bunch of 3" into it to make it look like swiss cheese...
It was very pretty, brought a tear to my eye...For just a second...Their oil rigs were even more fun...
I have to say the bravest, or most stubborn Iranian I ever saw (through the gun camera) was a guy on one of those rigs who we saw run across the flight deck to a 12.7mm Dashika" machinegun to take a shot at us...Red and Free on our guns, and one 5" round into that corner of the rig made short work of him...
They all tend to blow up real good though...Fond memories...sigh...
We will have zero problems with their conventional military order of battle...That I have full confidence in that eventuality...
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