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2008-07-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US holds navy exercise after Iran comments on Gulf

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Posted by Steve White 2008-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Mines and missiles can close the strait. We haven't yet realized that we're in a new era of naval warfare.

Posted by gromky 2008-07-08 06:31|| 2008-07-08 06:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Too bad the Iowas aren't still around. They could come in handy.

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-08 09:46|| 2008-07-08 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd have to agree Gromky. The USN still doesn't seem to have fully absorbed the lessons of the Falklands. Fortunately our opponents will be the Persians. Unfortunately, the Chinese are paying attention. Why we are giving control of the seas to them is beyond me.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-08 09:54|| 2008-07-08 09:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Mines yes, missiles, not so much. This isnt the Falklands. There are real carriers available, and serious EW and air assets, instead of jury-rigged ones. Think Aegis. Also there are large numbers of land-based assets in easy flying distance (the UAE, and Iraq) of the AO, unliek the flaklands, and they are not (relatively) gimpy harriers.

Anti-ship missiles need launchers and radars.

Radars die quick in a hostile environment against US SEAD weapons. So do launchers.

So they will get the initial strike, but that will be the only one of any significance.

Within a few hours, al the radars will be demolished, and anything in the Iranian Navy bigger than a RHIB will be prosecuted fully as a target and sent to the bottom. Same goes for port facilities and command & control.

Basically Hormuz and the military forces within 100 miles of it will be ripped apart.

Aside from that, lets roll Syria. Then we can throw a pipeline across Iraq from Sdaudi/Kuwait, to N Iraq and then across northern Syrian Kurdistan to the Med. Then the gulf no longer needs to be an oil port.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-08 12:30|| 2008-07-08 12:30|| Front Page Top

#5 TOPIX/IRNA > IRAN: [sees]NO WAR WITH USA, ISRAEL.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-08 21:44|| 2008-07-08 21:44|| Front Page Top

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