It is also okay to be 'predictable' when surrounded on all sides and above and below, by more US firepower than was used in the entire WWII.
Everything Iran has been saying about what they can do to us is pure propaganda, as though our Navy has just been sitting on their hands without solutions to what Iran can think up.
The actual best scenario is for Iran to attempt to attack one of our ships, because we will just light that country up like a candle.
But what about the effects of an Iranian nuke tethered to the bottom in the Straights of Hormuz? Even a crude one will decimate a carrier battle group if it catches it in the wrong place, conducting flight operations or not.
The actual best scenario is for Iran to attempt to attack one of our ships, because we will just light that country up like a candle.
I wouldn't use the phrase "best scenario" for that eventuality, but clearly I agree with your description of our response. From my point of view the best scenario is for the Iranian people to rise up and depose Ahmanutjob and restore sanity to that benighted country before anything more drastic happens.
"The actual best scenario is for Iran to attempt to attack one of our ships, because we will just light that country up like a candle."
Seems strange to me to think of a Carrier Strike/Battle Group as nothing more than a tripwire, but you may have a point there, judge.
OTOH, I see the reaction to an attack on one of the CSG's as infinitely more measured and thought out than "light...up like a candle".
If we only used the stuff that I saw come on line thirty years ago, those F/A-18 pilots on ONE carrier could still gut every Iranian military target within two hundred miles and not even break any windows in the towns around them.
....and the IRG knows that down to their boot heels.