Having dealt with the UAE’s poor excuse for an army, I have no doubt you are correct! But this IMO is a prime opportunity to get our navy back in shape by having them take out the Iranian Navy!
“Having dealt with the UAE’s poor excuse for an army, I have no doubt you are correct! But this IMO is a prime opportunity to get our navy back in shape by having them take out the Iranian Navy!”
They like to play up the so-called effectiveness of their “swarm” attacks, in which they send many small boats (not ships, because I’m not even really sure they have any true man ‘o war type vessels) at a larger ship to overwhelm the big ship’s defensive and offensive capabilities, but I think that would be a fool’s errand against any U.S. Navy man ‘o war. Just the point defense armaments alone would sort them about in a few seconds.
Now imagine a naval air component (let alone a land-based air support tasking) linked into those Navy ships, which is practiced by our forces all the time. That’s a fight the Iranians can’t win and they know it, so they’re playing a different sort of game here, I think. Perhaps with land-based anti-ship batteries and the like.