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| Israeli warships pass though Suez canal | |
| 2012-03-14 | |
| JERUSALEM — Two Israeli naval vessels passed through Egypt’s Suez Canal on Tuesday, headed from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, Israeli and Egyptian sources said. “It was routine, they were on their way to Eilat” where Israel has its Red Sea naval base, an Israeli security source told AFP on condition of anonymity. A source at the Canal Authority named the vessels as the Lahav and the Yafo, without giving their size or type.
The Israeli military said at the time that its own naval deployment was “part of a routine exercise.” The military had no comment on Tuesday’s crossing, which came to the backdrop of an international standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme, which much of the world believes is geared toward developing atomic weapons. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Iran would definitely want to bottle up the Suez prior to hostilities. I wish the USN would start disappearing Iranian submarines, as in "just gone". The rather silly James Bond movie, "The Spy Who Loved Me" got me thinking about how the USN could actually pull off an enemy submarine "disappearance", to make it look like an accident at sea. The Hunt For Red October reinforced this concept. If you combine elements of the two, there might be some real possibilities. First, take out their propellers, while at the same time anchoring them so they cannot surface when they blow their tanks. Both of these things could be done with a heavy anchored fishing net. Kill the crew with odorless poison gas, then tow the boat out of its patrol lane over an ocean trench, and surface it for a surface ship to harvest anything of value. Then seal it up nice and tight, and send it down to meet Davy Jones far past crush depth. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-03-14 14:42 |