Active Duty ping.
Oh, you wait until 0bama gets off of the golf course and hears about this.....boy, he'll show them! </LMAO>
Time to face some hard, disturbing facts. The Obama led US military was outmaneuvered in the Persian Gulf. China bitterly resents coercive US military, economic or diplomatic policies almost anywhere in Asia. It views Iran as a source of oil and gas and Iran’s seventy five million citizens as a market for its export oriented economy. China sold Iran state of the art, stealthy shore to ship missiles with American designed guidance systems. The Iranians fortified the Persian Gulf with those missiles. The big ,blue water ships of the US Navy despite their defensive systems, faced a debacle worse than Pearl Harbor in the shallow, narrow Persian Gulf. What’s more they also sold the Iranians long range ballistic missiles based in Iran and shot range mobile missiles positioned in Syria. Israel would have suffered a devastating counter attack against its cities and population centers if it had attacked Iran. China was the unseen hand that forced Obama willingly or unwillingly to disengage from the Persian Gulf.
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It sounds like the rocket was just hanging around, mid-air, and the carrier cruses to within 1500 yards.
How about this, Jim and Courtney...
Headline: Iranian navy idiots fire rockets when USS Harry S Truman is within 1500 yards.
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Iran was obviously looking for US radar and other electronic warfare signatures. Russia will pay well for that data.
On the first day on being sworn in as President, either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz must change the Rules of Engagement that forces our military to be vulnerable and ineffective.
That was NOT a close call in military terms. Now, a “close call” was the kind my son experienced as part of the 3rd Infantry Division column that was advancing up the left side of the Euphrates River in early April 2003.
He and some of his unit were watching our forces bombard the Iraqi Republican Guard tank divisions when an Iraqi missile landed about 1,000 feet away. They just stood there after it landed.
It was when another one landed 100 feet from them that they dove for the trenches. Now that was a “close call”.
I guess it is all just a major of perspective.
So if we attack Iran do we have to defend them under the rules John Kerry agreed to?
Reagan would have ensured we also had a live fire exercise back in their direction. Obama likely hid under the bed.
sorry , Obama is on vacation
Obama will probably respond by reminding Iran how tough he was with climate change rhetoric in Paris!
Those backwards-ass mohammedan idiots got lucky. Paging Harry Truman.
The sensational headline is misleading. And nobody wants to bother reading the entire article to learn the boring truth.
Ping
These were small, unguided rockets.
They were fired by small craft after the Iranians warned the vessels in the area that they were going to conduct the exercise.
They clearly did it as a propaganda coup, and to try and show something in opposition to the US.
But such weapons and craft are not any kind of serious threat to the carrier or its escorts.
IMHO, we should warn the Iranian that any more live fire exercise within 50 miles of any US carrier will result in the obliteration of the vessels firing the ordinance, the base where they came from and all ships at it, and any airfields in the near vicinity of said base that might otherwise support those vessels.
And then be willing to follow through and rain hell down on them if they try anything like that again.
But make no mistake, this exercise did not pose a mortal threat to the carrier or its accompanying vessels. Those weapons may have injured or even killed a few sailors had they tried to target the carrier at that range...but any actual attack would have resulted in (hopefully) a swift and heavy response. But you never know with Obama in office.
If they had fired a larger guided missile, both the escorts and the carrier have the means to shoot them down.
We simply need a President in office who will not take such guff off of the Iranian.
what a great headline had they retaliated.....
Truman WIpes out Iranian Islamists!
Iran feeds Obama number 2, and he praises the taste and asks for more.