LOL
“Mother of all battles” Islamobabble......it’s the way of the region.
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Perhaps. But in wargames from the runup to the attack on Saddam, a Marine general defeated the Navy forces by overwhelming the TF defenses. A force of small but very fast missile-carrying speedboats overwhelmed the screen and knocked out the carrier.
Now picture Iran with a similar strategy. Many small boats and large numbers of drones converging on the TF in those narrow waters. It’s not like Okinawa anymore. The ships have few guns and are much more fragile when hit.
Get cocky if you like but it’s not an impossible mission.
The Iranians had better be careful. If 0bama is backed into a corner and is dealing with bad or disastrous re-election prospects, he’ll be like a cornered animal. If he thinks that it could help...and of course it might, Iran could taste the result of his panic.
If one of those MACH-3 missiles DOES get in, it is moving way too fast to be shot down with conventional means, by the time it moves to within PHALANX range, it will also hit the ship before it can be shot down. If it jinks in flight before hitting it’s target, soemthing we knew how to make happen 30 years ago, that ship is in dead serious trouble.
Those missiles also fly faster than the anti-aircraft missiles we shoot at them from the side or behind, our only hope is to be within 10 miles when we launch a missile from any diagonal from the front approach or head on so that the missile has the range to follow and destroy that missile inbound.
These new hypersonic missiles are a genuine threat!