I have to wonder what the crew on the tugboat is thinking about the day’s activities.
When I was a lad, in the early 50s, one of my favorite toys was a plastic battleship that ‘blew up’ (it was like a mouse trap powered by rubber bands) when you hit a target on it with a little bomb you dropped from a B-29.
My dad used to laugh at me as I tried to blow it up. I’d take the bomber, get it right over the ship and drop the bomb. I always missed the target/trigger. He tried to explain that for it to be accurate, both the ship and the plane had to be moving. My six-year-old mind knew that that was clearly impossible.
For some reason Iran’s exercise reminds me of my bombing runs as a lad.
Last time they tried an exercise they smoked their own crew.