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Iranian boats approach Centcom commander's ship
CNN ^
| July 12, 2016
| Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent
Posted on 07/13/2016 7:41:20 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Isn’t the Persian Gulf too shallow for large nuclear subs to be effective?
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posted on
07/13/2016 9:25:56 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: wally_bert
It's shallow but still reachable via sub launched missile.
Torpedoes are passe
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posted on
07/13/2016 9:48:26 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
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.
To: Georgia Girl 2
What’s the effective range of a .50 Cal Ma Duece?
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posted on
07/13/2016 11:22:02 AM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: Georgia Girl 2
if the commander got a wild hare... Don't bring Bugs into this discussion...
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posted on
07/13/2016 11:27:09 AM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: Mr. Mojo
Someone want to tell me why there’s no ‘Smoke on the water’?
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posted on
07/13/2016 12:16:56 PM PDT
by
Freeport
(The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
To: gigster
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.
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posted on
07/13/2016 12:54:56 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Georgia Girl 2
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.
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posted on
07/13/2016 1:16:23 PM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: PGR88
Has the Landlubber CIC mandated U.S. Navy ships to fly the rainbow ensign yet?
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posted on
07/13/2016 1:19:36 PM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: Georgia Girl 2
Iranians respect our navy probably the same way they respected our untrained and unprepared naval craft that they captured without any fight whatsoever.
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posted on
07/13/2016 1:25:12 PM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: Mr. Mojo
They are no match for the USS New Orleans. It would be a short battle.
To: Mr. Mojo
CVN escorts need hipower microwave, full spectrum radio and directional EMP area denial tools
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posted on
07/13/2016 6:00:36 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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