[McGruff]

If they don't run out of fuel they may get here just in time for hurricane season.

[central_va]

I thought I smelled something.

[aces]

we need to test new nira weapons anyway, they would never know they have been hit until the frying begins

[sparklite2]

Knock yourself out. No, really. Knock yourself out.

[bert]

Meanwhile on Free Republic, many support Iran by constantly demanding we get out of theMiddle East.

[mkmensinger]

Target practice.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, whatever happened to that special purpose vehicle the EU was going to trot out to get around US sanctions....?

[LukeL]

Hope they run out of fuel or ground on a sandbar.

[V_TWIN]

“He said Sahand, a newly-built destroyer, would be one of the warships. Sahand has a flight deck for helicopters and Iran says it is equipped with anti-aircraft and anti-ship guns, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles and has electronic warfare capabilities.”

It also hosts a landing deck for Tomahawk missles and can function under water, ‘cause that’s where it’s gonna end up if they keep screwing around.

[Lou L]

It would be delicious if they got too "close" to our territorial waters, and we had to board their boats and detain their sailors...make them kneel on the deck with their hands clasped behind their heads, prisoner style, while we take propaganda photos of them.

You know, like they did to us in the Persian Gulf.

[Joe Boucher]

Meanwhile at the OK corral,
Irans economy is tanking thanks to The Donald throwing away the magic negros nuke give away.

[Jmouse007]

Target and recon practice.

[freedumb2003]

Trump is not obozo.

I hope iran views these ships as disposable.

[ThunderSleeps]

Do they have any experience operating their fleet units for up to 5 months at a time? Given they've always operated relatively close to home I doubt they've ever had cause or need to practice underway replenishment. I wonder where they've made arrangements to make port calls for food, fuel, spares, etc.

The Persian Gulf is not a great operating environment for US SSNs...however, if/when they venture out into more blue water, that's the SSNs playground. They'll face a threat in it's natural environment, though I'm fairly certain they'll never know it, unless one of our subs is ordered to rattle their chain a little...

[eyeamok]

The Iranian navy will send warships to deploy in the Atlantic from March, a top commander said on Friday

John Kerry??

[bantam]

I was gonna say, does anyone think it could reach Atlantic waters?

[sit-rep]

My initial thought... Fuel?? Coms?? Replenishment??

They wont get too far away from home... Dont we after all have control over GPS and Satellite communications??

[Midwesterner53]

If we insisted on war in the middle east, Bush should have taken out Iran, the root of terrorism all over the world.

[Retvet]

Hope their crews don’t want to migrate.

[Godzilla]

we won’t have to travel as far to sink them . . . . .

[Thunder 6]

Pro Tip: Bring lots of tow cables...

regards,