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Originally posted by semperfortis
All well and good except...
The United States Fifth Fleet has the means and the potential and the armament to turn Iran into a sheet of glass should they launch even one cruise missile our way.
If you check the total non-nuclear and Nuclear armament of that fleet, you will find they have more than any combination of countries in that area...And enough to adequately protect themselves...
Daily Mail
American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.
By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.
Originally posted by goosdawg
Here's a possible scenario:
1) Israel strikes first to take out Iran's nuclear facilities.
2) Iran retaliates by launching their "Sunburns" against the US Fifth Fleet.
3) With the popular support of the sheeple, the Neo-Con US Government is free to unleash their dogs of war on Iran.
4) Welcome to the End of Times.
But not everyone shared Gen. Kernan's rosy assessment. It was sharply criticized by the straight-talking Marine commander who had been brought out of retirement to lead Force Red. His name was Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper, and he had played the role of the crazed but cunning leader of the hypothetical rogue state. Gen. Van Riper dismissed the new military concepts as empty sloganeering, and he had reason to be skeptical. In the first days of the "war," Van Riper's Force Red sent most of the US fleet to the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
Originally posted by Beachcoma
Not if I can help it. Flagged, starred, StumbleIt... the works. If enough people know, they won't get away with it. If it turns out to be false... no harm, no foul.
Originally posted by Flyer
Remember the patriot missiles, they didnt work well and the US completely lied about their effectiveness during the war.
Using a range of asymmetrical attack strategies using disguised civilian boats for launching attacks, planes in Kamikaze attacks, and Silkworm cruise missiles, much of the Fifth Fleet was sunk. The games revealed how asymmetrical strategies could exploit the Fifth Fleet’s vulnerability against anti-ship cruise missiles in the confined waters of the Persian Gulf.
The U.S. Navy, after nearly six years of warnings from Pentagon testers, still lacks a plan for defending aircraft carriers against a supersonic Russian-built missile, according to current and former officials and Defense Department documents.
Both the Exocet and Silkworm cruise missiles were an older generation of anti-ship missile technology that were far surpassed by the Sunburn and Yakhonts missiles.