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Originally posted by mopusvindictus
Is it way bigger?
How much land after Georgia is TKO'd does Russia have to march through to physically link up actual troops with the Iranians?
Armenia? Lol that would make the Iranians happy and be a pit stop for the Russians
Najjar comments follow reports about an armada of US naval battle groups heading toward the Persian Gulf with the aim of reinforcing US strike forces in the region.
On Monday, DEBKAfiles, a source close to Israeli intelligence agency, reported that the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald Reagan, and the USS Iwo Jima are sailing toward the Persian Gulf accompanied by a British Royal Navy carrier battle group and a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine.
The deployment is believed to be the largest naval task force assembled by the United States and its allies in the region since the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
Originally posted by ugie1028
i dont get it, how come i can not find this on the news? i have not seen it on cnn or fox. how come they are not covering this more?
Originally posted by Americantrucker
reply to post by The Godfather of Conspira
Originally posted by The Godfather of Conspira
They've got airbases coming out of the ass (Bagram, Taqqadum, Incirlik).. they've got Turkey, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia;
All of which are sovereign nations. A mans home is his castle. They can tell the U.S. they can't use their airspace for whatever reason they feel like giving at any time they feel like doing so. They may be U.S. allies, but that doesn't mean that that's an automatic O.K. for flying in their airspace. The open sea is controled by no nation and is the most open way to most countries without others agreeing with it.
There's a reason we've all heard that saying "When there's a crisis somewhere in the world, the first question the president asks is "Where are the carriers?"
...there haven't been that many US battleships put to sea since Normandy to my knowledge.
Not to my knowledge either. (Probably because most were decommissioned soon after WWII.)
All but five were decommisioned in 1946/47. The U.S.S. Mississippi was decommisioned in 1956. Since then only four have been used in the active fleet. (U.S.S. Iowa ((8/25/51-2/24/58 4/28/84-10/26/90)), U.S.S. New Jersey (11/21/50-8/21/57 4/6/68-12/17/69 12/28/82-2/8/91), U.S.S. Missouri (5/10/86-3/31/92), and U.S.S. Wisconsin (3/3/51-3/8/58 10/22/88-9/30/91).
To my knowledge, today there is only one battleship left in the entire fleet. (The U.S.S. Iowa is the only one (held in the reserve fleet) that hasn't been turned into a museum or sold for scrap.
I may be wrong on that. (like I said, all I have to go on is what I see.) If I am, please let me know.
www.chinfo.navy.mil...
I do not believe that is what is going no here, and I am sure the Carrier groups are simply rotating once more.
It has been some time hasnt it?
Originally posted by xxpigxx
someone was asking why so many destroyers . . .
Destroyers are your main anti submarine boat. Russia loves their subs. We know that if the SHTF, Russia is using subs.