Posted on 06/22/2024 4:44:40 PM PDT by mulder1
‘Shipping’ should be getting pretty tired of this crap by now.
It's a log easier to fake an image showing that the ship hasn't been hit. Just show a before picture and claim that it's an after.
Probably it wasn't hit, but if it comes into port and there are huge tarps covering part of it, well, it will be difficult to hide that from all cameras, so a cynic might say the deep fake warnings are an attempt to get ahead of the bad news. Or as the Clintons used to say "telling the truth slowly".
For those of you who are not only ignorant but lazy as well, see mulder1 post 21
“For those of you who are not only ignorant but lazy as well, see mulder1 post 21”
I don’t think I’ve made a SINGLE POSTING regarding the Houthis. If I have, please find it - I cannot.
“A link proving beyond doubt you are guilty of aiding and abetting enemies at active war with the US Navy”
I don’t know Mulder1 well enough to agree with the above, either way, but if you’re directing that at myself, I’ll have to again ping the moderators, unless you can back it up with anything beyond me saying that our involvement in Ukraine was a STUPID thing to do.
They should be equipped with aerial defenses and machine gun positions forward, aft and amidships, and whatever else they need to keep their cargo and crew safe. Insurers should incentivize this. It’s the new normal.
They are already heavily armed:
Armament
2–3 × Mk 29 Guided Missile Launching Systems, 8 × RIM-162 ESSM or RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles each
3–4 × Phalanx CIWS
2 × Mk 49 Guided Missile Launching Systems, 21 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles each
Mk 38 25 mm Machine Gun
Oddly as big as they are not much “spare” space.
(Attributed to Chancellor Otto von Bismark, among others)
If we can’t deter the Houthis what chance do we have against China & Russia?
It’s been a long deployment. A well-deserved rest is due the sailors.
The point is, the pictures used by the people pushing the lies weren’t even of the Ike, and were available online before being used as ‘proof’ of strikes on the Ike.
It’s low rent disinformation recycling already available imagery.
But some percentage of people will fall for it.
In “Nam” no carrier left it’s duty station until properly relived by another Carrier
With its tail hook between its propellers very sad
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