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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (2nd right) tours the warship "Jamran" at an undisclosed location in southern Iran

1 posted on 02/19/2010 6:57:04 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I will be a pain to have to dig this thing off the bottom of the Gulf so it doesn’t interfere with commercial shipping traffic.


2 posted on 02/19/2010 6:58:34 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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can carry 120-140 personnel on board

I almost feel sorry for them.

4 posted on 02/19/2010 7:00:23 AM PST by EternalVigilance (TATBO - "Throw All The Bums Out")
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14,000 metric tons? That's half again as much displacement as a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, if true. I'll bet the article slipped a zero somewhere and they're actually 1,400 tons.

}:-)4

5 posted on 02/19/2010 7:02:01 AM PST by Moose4 (Wasting away again in Michaelnifongville.)
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surface-to-air missiles with a top speed of up to 30 knots

Man, those are some sloooow missiles!

7 posted on 02/19/2010 7:04:37 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: sukhoi-30mki

14,000 tons BS... Maybe 1,500. Nothing but a little patrol craft. Or a target.


8 posted on 02/19/2010 7:04:51 AM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Is it me, or is that an OTO-Melara 76mm?!?

Did they boost it off of some other ship, reverse-engineer their own domestically-produced variant, or manage to sneak it in past the various embargos?


10 posted on 02/19/2010 7:05:54 AM PST by tanknetter
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Oh crap... they forgot to install the bilge pump...


11 posted on 02/19/2010 7:06:01 AM PST by dps.inspect
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There is no way that dingy displaces 14,000 tonnes.


12 posted on 02/19/2010 7:06:07 AM PST by Antoninus (The RNC's dream ticket: Romney / Scozzafava 2012)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

The rest of the ships that follow will all have glass bottoms so they can see this one.


13 posted on 02/19/2010 7:06:14 AM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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On the first deployment, they’ll run it aground. Not much naval expertise in the Koran.


15 posted on 02/19/2010 7:07:37 AM PST by ZX12R
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Pfft.

So they stuck a gun turret on a tug boat.

Big deal.


16 posted on 02/19/2010 7:07:50 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (The liberals are asking us to give Obama more time. Is 25 to life enough?)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Oh Crap!!! Just Crap!!!


17 posted on 02/19/2010 7:08:03 AM PST by dps.inspect
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Target practice!


18 posted on 02/19/2010 7:08:30 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

A) We know exactly where it is, down to the square meters.

B) It would not exist within the hour if we wanted it not to exist.


19 posted on 02/19/2010 7:09:32 AM PST by EternalVigilance (TATBO - "Throw All The Bums Out")
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Hmmm. Fourteen thousand tons is not a “destroyer.” Its a cruiser.

Of course, most of our recent “destroyers” have been cruisers, too...

I guess they’re building USN-style destroyers.


20 posted on 02/19/2010 7:09:41 AM PST by Little Ray (Madame President sounds really good to me...)
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Oh Crap... Did ya see that gun... we’re dead, we’re soo dead!


21 posted on 02/19/2010 7:10:25 AM PST by dps.inspect
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Doesn’t it have to turn and face east five times a day?


22 posted on 02/19/2010 7:10:33 AM PST by RightOnline
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Soon to be reduced to scrap metal on the bottom of the Persian Gulf.


23 posted on 02/19/2010 7:11:51 AM PST by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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It gonna look pretty with flames shooting out of all openings.


26 posted on 02/19/2010 7:13:48 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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You have hand it to the Iranians for being ecologically conscious to provide this contribution to the future Persian Gulf Artificial Reef Program (PGARP).


28 posted on 02/19/2010 7:19:29 AM PST by Rebelbase
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