[RAY]

Lt-Cdr Erik Horner, who has been working alongside the task force to which the 15 captured Britons belonged, told The Independent that his men would have fired on the Iranian Republican Guard rather than let themselves be taken hostage.

Damn it, I hope so. I hope that US troops are carrying enough firpower in their rubber dingies to blast an Iran war ship out of the water, and also have enough air cover, on very short, notice to do the same and more.

Unfortunately, probably not.

[Prokopton]

I hope that US troops are carrying enough firpower in their rubber dingies to blast an Iran war ship out of the water,

Interdiction and inspection missions from rubber dingies. And they call this a navy? Sounds more of what a country like Gabon would have for naval vessels. This was not a special ops mission where high speed small crafts were needed for insertion. This was a mission, in hostile territory, interdicting and inspecting vessels of substantial size.

I don't get it.

[Canali]

If Hezbollah can hit an Israeli boat off Beruit, then Iran certainly has the ablity to sink anything in the Gulf.