If the Iranians target 100 speedboats at a destroyer/frigate, can you get them all? 200? 300? I hear the Iranians are talking about 300 boat attacks.
Sacrificial lamb ? False flag ?
WW2-era warships had enough rapid-firing guns for anti-aircraft work that they would be invulnerable to low-tech speedboat attacks.
It would be nice if we had a cluster-munition that could scatter a few thousand grenade-size floating mines in front of the speedboat wave. Just the right size to destroy a speedboat, but harmless against a steel-hulled ship.
The big E is set to leave norfolk for the gulf this week.
Sacrificial lamb ? False flag ?
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Fire sale. We need the money and Zero sold it to the Iranians.
They will take possession when it arrives in port. The smuggled Russian navalized SUs will be load up. Russian piolts debarked in Syria from the aircraft carrier than just left will do the flying under Iranian colors a la the Korean war.
The shinny new Russian early warning radar installed in Syria will do the tracking from the Med to the Golan to Saudia Arabia.
The Chinese navy will man the Iranian minisubs with token Iranian navy personel aboard.