Iranian rocket passes within 1,500 yards of US aircraft carrier

FoxNews ^ | 12/30/15 | Unknown

[Blood of Tyrants]

Iranian rockets passed within 1,500 yards of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz last week, a senior defense official confirmed Tuesday to Fox News.

Cmdr. Kyle Raines, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said in a statement to the Associated Press early Wednesday that Iranian Revolutionary Guard naval vessels fired "several unguided rockets" after giving only 23 minutes' notice over maritime radio that a live-fire exercise would be carried out. The incident was first reported by NBC News.

[Robert357]

Since the missiles were fired away from the fleet, that was not as provocative as it could have been. Still the Navy could have done more.

The Phalanx close in weapons system's should have had their radar up and 20mm cannons spinning with 23 minutes advance warning.

Since the Iranian missiles were 1,500 yards away and since the Phalanx has an effective range of about 4,000 yards, the Navy could have shredded the missiles in mid-flight.

That would have impressed the Republican Guard and probably made them wet their pants. It would have put a stop to this nonsense in a way the Big Zero just doesn't understand.

[Southack]

See post #5.

The U.S. ships were in the middle of the Straight. The Iranian ships were East of the U.S. ships. The Iranian ships launched the missiles East towards Iran, directly away from the U.S. ships.

U.S. ships -—> Iranian ships -—> Iranian missiles headed away.

If you shot the Phalanx guns at the Iranian missiles, the rounds would travel through the Iranian ships and then have to catch up to the departing missiles.

Do y’all understand what being on the back side of a launch looks like instead of being on the same side of a ship as it launches missiles??

Because Fox News sure doesn’t...unless you think that they crafted that news headline to jerk the chains of people who don’t think about the news before they react.

Those Iranian ships were 1,500 yards away from the closest U.S. ship. If the ship was 20 yards wide, then the closest those missiles ever were to the U.S. ships was 1,520 yards away.

Since they were launched from the far side of the Iranian ships headed directly away from the U.S. ships, the missiles forever got farther away from our U.S. ships as they flew.

[The Great RJ]

Perhaps we need to test some of our new laser or rail gun weapons in close proximity to Iranian patrol boats.

[JimRed]

No CIWS target practice?

[ETL]

From Real Clear Politics, Sept 10, 2015...

"In a 2014 New Yorker interview, Obama said his goal was to create a 'new equilibrium' in the Middle East.

In the short run, at least, his signature diplomatic undertaking can be counted on to bring more violence to this volatile region.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the [Obama-Putin Iran deal] agreement is formally known, provides the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism an infusion of somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion of unfrozen assets and a great deal more of continuing revenues as businesses and governments around the world rush to profit from oil-and-gas-rich Iran's reintegration into the world economy.

The agreement relaxes the international isolation of the Islamic Republic and ratifies Tehran's status as a nuclear threshold state. And it relieves restrictions on Iran's acquisition of weapons, including ballistic missiles. ..."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/10/iran_deal_throws_sparks_on_mideast_tinderbox_128034.html
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Aug 2015...

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Russian build-up in Syria part of secret deal with Iran's Quds Force leader

September 11, 2015
Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson
FoxNews.com

As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran's Quds Force commander - their chief exporter of terror - and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August. ..."

The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran's proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. ..."

Officials who have monitored the build-up say they've seen more than 1,000 Russian combatants - some of them from the same plainclothes Special Forces units who were sent to Crimea and Ukraine. Some of these Russian troops are logistical specialists and needed for security at the expanding Russian bases.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/russian-build-up-in-syria-part-secret-deal-with-irans-quds-force-leader/
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Pro-Hezbollah Paper: Russia, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah Form Alliance

Sept 23, 2015

A prominent pro-Hezbollah newspaper in Lebanon reported Tuesday that Russia and the terrorist organization have formed an alliance and will fight together in Syria. "The parties to the alliance are the states of Russia, Iran, Syria, and Iraq, with Lebanon's Hezbollah as the fifth party,"

Al-Akhbar Editor in Chief Ibrahim al-Amin wrote. The pact would be called the "4+1 alliance", a pun based on the P5+1 that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran. Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran based in Lebanon and Moscow has been working with Tehran to save Bashar al-Assad's regime, even sending men and weapons to Syria.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/09/22/report-russia-partners-with-hezbollah.html
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[unixfox]

Pfft...Obama would be afraid to attack a pirate ship.

[DoughtyOne]

I appreciate those comments. Certainly puts a different light on it.

[Colorado Doug]

Whether they were shooting away or not isn't the point so much as the fact that they wouldn't have dared do anything so provocative if we had a real leader in the Whitehouse. I'm sure that had Regan or maybe even Bush been in office,we would have done some test firing of our own.

[SaveFerris]

High Tea with a Mr. Newman.

Business as usual at Kramerica Industries.

A single man in a messy apartment which may or may not contain a chicken.

And with Darren’s help, we’ll get that chicken!

[Netz]

This does not matter. This is still the Iranians telling the US to fling off. They are building ICBMs and nuclear warheads while Ovomit and Curry smile...

[Eleutheria5]

Wait ‘til there’s a real President at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue before any talk of war.

[Robert357]

I do understand. Graphics not needed. Do you understand that unless the missiles were fired at an incredibly low angle that they would rise about the Iranian ships and be spotted by the radar that controls those guns (well above the Iranian ships) and so they could have been shot out of the air. Yes live fire over ones head can be terrifying, but might be a valuable lesson for the Republican Guard.

[headstamp 2]

I think Kerry needs to reduce his face pressure.

[headstamp 2]

They set us up the bomb.