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US navy warned of 'suicide drones' ~ Iran warns us....
news.com.au - Australia ^
| February 11, 2007 07:31pm
| From correspondents in Tehran
Posted on 02/11/2007 12:25:49 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ole Okie
Iranian missile specialists have built birds without passengers that can carry out suicide operations on US Navy, at any depth if necessary, to make them leave the region in disgrace."
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:05:37 PM PST
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:09:15 PM PST
by
thinking
To: Halgr
I never thought an unmanned plane could commit suicide?????? Only if severely depressed.
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:10:20 PM PST
by
SIDENET
(No votes for RINOs.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The only reason they are telling us this rather than just using them is because they are really scared to death that we will bomb them into the 8th century and they're bluffing.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It wouldnt be too bright attacking an American ship. I am sure the United States would not just sail off into the sunset and leave.
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:21:43 PM PST
by
sgtbono2002
(I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
To: guitar4jesus
I hear there is talk about sending these Viagra'd R2D2's out on mobile field platforms.
To: Taichi
Agreed, it's a threat and one I take very seriously because my son is there. But you have to give it to the Iranians, when they issue a threat they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that English is not their second language. The Danes seem to do pretty well with English... :-)
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:33:01 PM PST
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: Alter Kaker
In exercises, our military tends to overstate the capabilities of the enemy and understate the capability of our forces, for several reasons. Not only do they want to wargame worst case scenarios in order to prepare for them, but funding at times can depend on the outcome of exercises. Do we buy 10 or 20 of fill-in-the-blank weapons platform? The exercise indicates we need at least 20.
The MSM, always ready to denigrate the American military, is only too willing to pick up the refrain, thus we hear how the Afghani Mujahadeen defeated the great Russian army and will surely be the end of us, Saddam's vaunted Republican guard will rule the desert and now, the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which was soundly defeated by the Republican Guard in the Iran-Iraq War, will nevertheless spell doom for the US Navy. They've got missiles now, so it's straight to Davy Jones' locker for us.
Might suicide attacks have some limited success? Perhaps, very limited. But keeping open the sea lines of communication throughout the Asian littoral is one of the primary missions of the US Navy. They've been wargaming this upcoming fight for decades (I should know) and the lesson of the USS Cole and the Iranian hit on an Israeli corvette last summer have not been lost. Bet on the US Navy.
To: AmericaUnited
The only reason they are telling us this rather than just using them is because they are really scared to death that we will bomb them into the 8th century and they're bluffing. ObWisecrack: Why would bombing them advance their civilization?
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:35:42 PM PST
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: LadyNavyVet
While you're correct in identifying certain biases (note that I didn't bring up the war games), you're forgetting another -- that the US Navy has an inherent institutional bias towards surface ships in general and towards large nuclear aircraft carriers in specific.
That bias exists for a number of reasons, historic and political, in spite of the fact that modern missile technology makes capital ships extremely vulnerable in a hypothetical conflict against an Iran-class opponent. The small area and shallowness of the Persian Gulf amplifies the advantage enjoyed by the Iranians.
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:45:20 PM PST
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: tet68
What if they gave a Jihad and nobody came?
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:45:20 PM PST
by
appeal2
To: LadyNavyVet
Very succinctly put!
I remember before Gulf War I, some analyst was on the tube describing how the Iraqi tanks would dig into the desert and pick off the Americans one by one. He sure wowed the talking heads with his blather.
As we know, it did not work as planned. Those tanks were sitting ducks and got blasted to kingdom come.
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:50:24 PM PST
by
Bon mots
(Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
IRAN has built "suicide" drones capable of attacking US naval ships and forcing them to leave Gulf waters, said a Revolutionary Guards commander quoted by the semi-official news agency Mehr. Our Answer: The US has "traditional" weapons that they will make Iran disappear from the map.
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:51:25 PM PST
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: Pox
"And they seem so eager to actually give us a reason to perform a regime change in Iran the moment they do attempt attacking our Navy, IMO." Iran's Mahdi mad despots will not be satisfied until they have triggered a war in the Persian Gulf which could quickly enveloped the entire oil exporting region. Iran's ever willing terrorist cohorts in Syria, Hamas, Hezballah and Shi'ite fanatics spread out around the Gulf and beyond are just dying for total jihad.
All of them are on borrowed time
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:55:14 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is Never Free)
To: KantianBurke
KB: If the Iranians tries this and they will try it in case of war, the Iranian military will be absolutely annihilated. I hope that you will on the US side when the war with Iran will occur. I know that you hate President Bush but stay on the US side, first because we are right and second because we are going to win. And yes Pat Buchanan is still an idiot.
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posted on
02/11/2007 2:55:20 PM PST
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: MNJohnnie
We have had them for years, we call ours "US Senators" Right! Elect Hillary and we will leave the area in disgrace, just as with her coPresident, Slick Willie.
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:00:50 PM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: BIGLOOK
There were successes but they ran out of recruits quickly. I knew a Kamakazi pilot who flew 37 missions. Admittedly, he wasn't very good at it.
:-)
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:08:33 PM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
To: Gondring
Why would bombing them advance their civilization? Well.... it what they greatly fear :)
To: Alter Kaker
The small area and shallowness of the Persian Gulf amplifies the advantage enjoyed by the Iranians.
Do you honestly think that they have the advantage?
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:35:49 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: jveritas
"I hope that you will on the US side when the war with Iran will occur.'
WTF is THAT supposed to mean?? Are you claiming that if one raises concerns over the reality of the Iranian threat based on past US naval exercises they're therefore pro mullah?? Why not stop being a coward and just openly label anyone who is cautious pro terrorist?
"I know that you hate President Bush"
You don't know anything. What I DO know is Bush is not Jesus, he is NOT conservative, he has advocated many policies that are harmful to this country and bots who claim otherwise have been enablers to his bad behavior.
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