US Has 320 Tomahawk Missiles In Gulf And Arabian Sea

Vestnik Kavkaza ^ | February 15, 2012

[Strategy]

US naval forces in the Gulf and the Arabian Sea have over 320 Tomahawk missiles, capable of hitting any target in Iran, Interfax reports.

The US Fifth Fleet has two groups of aircraft carriers headed by aircraft carriers Abraham Lincoln and Carl Vinson. The US naval forces in the region include two aircraft carriers, two cruisers with 26 cruise missiles each, four destroyers with 8-56 missiles each, two Annapolis submarines with 12 missiles and the Georgia with 154 Tomahawks.

Another aircraft group will arrive, headed by the aircraft carrier Enterprise, a missile cruiser and three destroyers. The total number of Tomahawks will exceed 430. They have a range of 1,600 km.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

loose lips, sink ships

[DonnerT]

That is an awful lot of our fish in a small rain barrel.

Does anybody believe this is being done in support of Israel?

Is someone planning to wag the Iranian dog?

[GOP_Party_Animal]

The Georgia is an SSGN, but what's an "Annapolis submarine"?

[MichaelP]

Ditto, lol!

[nascarnation]

loose lips, sink ships

Oh come on.

BJ Clinton used to shoot those off like 4th of July fireworks every time there was a bimbo eruption.

[A.A. Cunningham]

two Annapolis(sic) submarines

WTFski? The USS Annapolis (SSN-760) is a Los Angeles class attack boat.

Reminds one of the old saying regarding the Soviet media:

There is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia.

Below is the Annapolis doing it's part to torpedo the myth of AGW.

The US Navy attack submarine USS Annapolis (SSN 760) rests in the Arctic Ocean after surfacing through three feet of ice during Ice Exercise 2009 on March 21, 2009.

[mnehring]

Not exactly news, just a count of what these ships normally carry.

[JimRed]

Getting permission to use them, on the other hand...

[rwa265]

“The Georgia is an SSGN, but what’s an “Annapolis submarine”?”

I believe the writer got it confused with Los Angeles, or 688, class submarines, one of which is the Annapolis (SSN-760). The later submarines in this class, the 688i, have 12 Vertical Launching System (VLS) tubes which can be used for Tomahawk cruise missiles.

[beethovenfan]

Ready to take out another aspirin factory?

[servantboy777]

It’s an election year. Sitting presidents during war time are very very hard to unseat.

[Shark24]

Not a lot of ordinance based on the need.

[FreeAtlanta]

Nuclear tipped? Maybe, this is how Obama is getting rid of all our nukes?

[A.A. Cunningham]

Quite a bit of ordnance as well as ordinances re naval regulations.

[RitchieAprile]

I doubt the “Caucasus Journal” knows more about this than
the average bear...

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[TYVets]

I wonder if the admirals have told President Limp Wrist about this?

[rmlew]

Is someone planning to wag the Iranian dog?
Preventing a country, whose leader has the declared intent to destroy the US and has killed hundreds of American, from getting nuclear weapons is not "wagging the dog". Regardless of who is president, it is a rational, if not the only rational, action. Country trumps politics.

[varon]

WTFski?

Needs adding to my online vocabulary :-)