The Brits and Yanks are sailing the gunboats into the Persian Gulf where the Iranians can see them. Those things aren't bogged down in Iraq and are well in range of Iran's oil infrastructure.
So, don't just leave them bobbing around out there.
The naval officer in yesterday's lunch crowd is a fan of bringing back a couple of battleships with 16-inch guns and rocket-assisted rounds for exactly this purpose. Cheaper than cruise missiles. Though the Army guys pointed out that's a heck of a lot of battleship, swabs and beans per 16-inch round.
Update: British Army Cpl. Daniel James, Pashtun translator and aide to Britain's commander in Afghanistan, accused of passing secrets to a "foreign power," believed to be Iran. He is of Iranian descent.
WSJ says Iranian voters are tougher on Teheran than the UN Security Council is.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
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If you knew half as much as you think you do, as a total military groupie, you'd know those Navy rust buckets are nothing more than multi-million-dollar sitting ducks for Iranian coastal defense missile batteries.
The Missouri has CIWS Sean...and was armored to survive a hit from an 18" AP artillery round.
Perhaps you don't know as much as you think you do?
Its guns were built about 6 miles from where I grew up as a kid.
Maybe I do, Purple.
The next battleship that gets torpedoed and goes to the bottom won't be the first. Remember, the Bismarck was sunk by wood and fabric-covered Gypsymoth biplanes. The age of the dreadnought ended on Dec 7, 1941. No WWII admiral worth his salt would have willingly bottled up his fleet in a pond the size of the Persian Gulf. Besides, the point is mute - we don't have any battleships to float into there and neither do the British. The place is a deathtrap - remember the USS Stark?
Maybe I do, Purple.
Maybe not. There are no battleships in the active fleet anymore, and only one in the inactive. The rest are floating museums.
The place is a deathtrap - remember the USS Stark?
You mean the one that has its defenses down when it was hit and the CIWS station unmanned? That Stark?
Perhaps you should READ THIS before using Stark as an example. You won't have to go past page 4 to realize Stark is an incredibly poor example.
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