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Originally posted by Alphard
Translation: This extract is from the same source as the first extract. According to this, the simulated attacks in the Millenium Challenge were of even older design than the ones used by China (and very likely also Iran) now. and they STILL managed to sink most of the fleet. Consider that.
Originally posted by goosdawg
The Navy's anti-cruise missile defenses are only most effective when deployed "over the horizon," and there is no horizon to use to their advantage in the Gulf.
The key here is why would the US attack first?
Originally posted by HimWhoHathAnEar
Maybe because they now have 3000 centrifuges online and are well on their way to a bomb wihtin a year. At least thats the premise Israel was recently briefed on in the Knesset. When they go, we go.
So making sure our ships are out of the area until we clean up is crucial. To do otherwise would be highly questionable IMO. There simply is no defense against these Supersonic missiles, they just come in to fast and can be programmed for evasive manuevers on the way in. We've known this for years.
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Actually the patriot missile was a huge sucess story. Here was a missile that was ONLY designed for anti-aircraft and in a very short peroid that would have taken years it was redesigned to fill a roll that we had nothing for that roll of shooting down missles from the a ground base launch site.
Originally posted by Flyer
Remember the patriot missiles, they didnt work well and the US completely lied about their effectiveness during the war.
Originally posted by HimWhoHathAnEar
Yes, but hasn't Iran said many times already that ANY strike by Israel would bring a full reponse against all targets in the ME, US and Israeli?
Source | Rense.com | Myth Of US Invincibility Floats In The Persian Gulf
The US Navy's biggest problem operating in Gulf waters are the constraints that the region's confined spaces impose on US naval defenses, which were designed for the open sea. The Persian Gulf is nothing but a large lake, after all, and in such an environment the Navy's over-the-horizon defenses are seriously compromised.4 Nor can the Navy withdraw to a safe distance, so long as its close-in presence is required to support the US occupation forces in Iraq. The serious implications of this simple fact for a possible future conflict, for instance, involving Iran, have never, to my knowledge, been discussed in the US press.