Posted on 07/27/2020 7:59:50 AM PDT by knighthawk
Iran appears to be getting ready to send a warning to the U.S. as it has moved a mock aircraft carrier out to sea presumably to destroy it in a live-fire exercise.
The 650-foot long vessel with 16 fake fighter jets on deck – which bears resemblance to the Nimitz-class carriers that the U.S. Navy routinely sails into the Persian Gulf -- was pulled by a tugboat into the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, according to satellite images released Monday.
“We cannot speak to what Iran hopes to gain by building this mockup, or what tactical value they would hope to gain by using such a mockup in a training or offensive exercise scenario,” Navy Cmdr. Rebecca Rebarich – a spokesperson for the U.S. 5th Fleet, which operates in the region – told Fox News in a statement.
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We should blow it to smithereens.
Just for fun.
I would have loved to have had a mock boxer in the ring just once :-)
Lol
We should blow the tow ship out of the water.
Mockups don’t shoot back.
Seems like a total waste of money.
Maybe for a movie or something like that
Photos have captured the Iranians moving their mock aircraft carrier into position.
Iran is going to supplement its limited income selling footage to CNN.
I say turnabout is fair play.
Let’s make a big, wooden model of something the Iranian leaders love.
I know!
A sheep!
A big, wooden sheep!
Call it The Iranian Love Sheep.
All the Iranian leaders will flock to it.
Hazard to navigation in international waters, freedom of the seas. All that stuff. Time for a SINKEX. Simultaneous strike by sub launched torpedoes and air dropped JDAMs, after say, an air defense suppression strike of Tomahawks and anti-radiation missiles.
“We cannot speak to what Iran hopes to gain by building this mockup....”
The same gain a pimpled pale faced skinny nerd gets from a Katy Perry sex doll.
Fantasy. They closest they will ever be to actually “getting laid”.
The only thing they could add to the effect is running around in circles carrying tiny F-14 models shouting “Pew-Pew-Pew” before throwing M-80’s on the cardboard carrier.
Interestingly, the U.S. and Iran are two of the only countries in the world that have not formally ratified the current international “Open Seas” treaty.
I suspect this is a big reason why the Trump administration has had a very hands-off approach with Iran over the various interactions the two countries have had in the Persian Gulf.
Waste money they don’t have on Propaganda . I think a few more places in Iran should Blow Up
Seems a silly thing to waste money on.
Seems she's more famous for having a blow up doll named for her than her singing.
How would you like to be the guy on drone video the day they try to sink it. They will miss on the first five or six attempts. Then the Iranians will film the ONE bomb that hits—and they will show how they can take on the great satan.
The thing about shooting targets...they don’t shoot back.
Can we please leave the Pope out of it
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