Iran blasts dummy US aircraft carrier with missiles

BBC ^ | Tuesday, July 28, 2020 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Last time they tried an exercise they smoked their own crew.

[SaveFerris]

[Mo doubt Iran intends to use multiple fast-attack, small boats to try and overwhelm defensive systems in the hopes of securing some hits.]

Maybe even NO doubt!

[SaveFerris]

[Mockups don’t shoot back.]

Boards don’t hit back.

Bruce Lee to his actual real-life bodyguard in “Enter the Dragon”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zRsgsUWYks

[SaveFerris]

[”What was shown today in these exercises, at the level of aerospace and naval forces, was all offensive,” Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Major General Hossein Salami told state television.]

It sounds like Salami is full of baloney (bologna?)

[LegendHasIt]

Yeah, I was thinking of that scene, (and Rex Applegate’s “Bullseyes don’t shoot back.”) when I wrote that.

[SaveFerris]

Awesome!

[PIF]

there are regular patrols by USAF A10s in the day and USAF AC130Js at night

[Feckless]

The Ultimate “I’m a badass” shooting at paper targets that don’t shoot back.

[Joe Boucher]

Don’t forget space based weapons.
They are real and effective,

[jdsteel]

They wasted a bunch of ammo & money.

Cool.

[SunkenCiv]

We have to be extra afraid now -- they've proven they can hit the broad side of a barn, and destroy giant ships made out of wood. This could spell the end of Seleucid dominance! ;^)