Posted on 07/13/2016 7:41:20 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
(CNN)The four-star commander of the U.S. Central Command got an unexpected, up close and personal look Monday at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy when a U.S. Navy warship he was on was approached by five armed Iranian craft in the Arabian Gulf.
Gen. Joseph Votel was on board the USS New Orleans on a southbound transit in the Strait of Hormuz when the Iranian ships came within about 500 yards of the U.S. ship, according to U.S. defense officials.
A U.S. defense official said there were two separate encounters with the Iranian boats. The first was with a Houdong class patrol boat and the second with four smaller Iranian vessels. There was at least one bridge-to-bridge communication between the Americans and Iranians, the official said.
The encounters were deemed safe by the U.S., one defense official said, noting that Iranians often shadow U.S. Navy ships in the Gulf.
But Votel warned that such incidents pose a risk.
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Isn’t the Persian Gulf too shallow for large nuclear subs to be effective?
Those missiles are spread, hidden and have a flight time of less than 30 seconds to target.They would be hard to destroy on the ground even if their locations were known.
What’s the effective range of a .50 Cal Ma Duece?
Someone want to tell me why there’s no ‘Smoke on the water’?
A .50 cal isn’t going to take down a US Naval warship. Get real.
First its taunting. The Iranians do it all the time. If they had been so misguided as to attempt to fire on a US naval warship from 500 yards or 2,000 yards they would find themselves sitting on the bottom of the gulf in short order.
Basically it was a non event.
I was hypothetically talking about us taking out the rag-head camel-jockeys, or should I have put up a /Sarc tag? I know a fifty caliber machine gun won’t take out a navy ship, but I do know their effective range is about +- two thousand yards.
Has the Landlubber CIC mandated U.S. Navy ships to fly the rainbow ensign yet?
Iranians respect our navy probably the same way they respected our untrained and unprepared naval craft that they captured without any fight whatsoever.
They are no match for the USS New Orleans. It would be a short battle.
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