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2011-01-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Planning To Send Fleet To Mediterranean Off Israel
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Posted by  Anonymoose 2011-01-24 08:19|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 :...including a home-made destroyer"

As far as anyone knows, Iran has Destroyers of 1970s vintage that have been kept in port for many years. Their seaworthiness is unknown but suspect.
Posted by Lord Garth 2011-01-24 10:19||   2011-01-24 10:19|| Front Page Top

#2 ...The last time Big E and the Iranians met, it was a decidedly bad day for the Maritime Mullahs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis

But if they insist on a rematch...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-01-24 10:57||   2011-01-24 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Easier target acquisition there
Posted by OldSpook 2011-01-24 11:03||   2011-01-24 11:03|| Front Page Top

#4 watch them try to escort another Paleo Flotilla to Gaza by force. Hilarity ensues
Posted by Frank G 2011-01-24 11:56||   2011-01-24 11:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The next Gaza flotilla is supposed to set sail in May, according to the Jerusalem Post. There are to be ships from a dozen different countries, including the U.S. and Canada (I believe several Friends of Obama are involved in the planning of the American contingent).

I vote for fishing nets twisted around screws and rudders for a start...
Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-24 15:34||   2011-01-24 15:34|| Front Page Top

#6 They wouldn't dare do anything stupid with a carrier there.

Then again, we have the Fiddler in Chief running the show . . . .
Posted by gorb 2011-01-24 15:51||   2011-01-24 15:51|| Front Page Top

#7 I didn't know outboards would go that far.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-01-24 16:45||   2011-01-24 16:45|| Front Page Top

#8 tw: For a flotilla, I wonder if it would be possible for the Israelis to erect some kind of floating anti-ship barrier of the old school. Otherwise, if they had the schematics of those ships, they could fire a few HVAP .50 cal rounds into their engines.

And, if push came to shove, declare the area a military live fire training area.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2011-01-24 18:30||   2011-01-24 18:30|| Front Page Top

#9 My bet is that it never happens.
Posted by tu3031 2011-01-24 18:38||   2011-01-24 18:38|| Front Page Top

#10 the danger for Israel here is that, as per the NET = ANTI-US IRAN + CHINA BLOGGERS HAVE OPINED THAT IRAN SHOULD NOT ONLY DEPLOY LR SLCMS/NLCMS ABOARD IRANIAN NAVAL WARSHIPS + SUBS TO DETER ISRAEL, BUT ALSO DEV + DEPLOY "ARSENAL SHIPS" CAPABLE OF LAND ATTACK, + in response to Israel's plan to deploy Missle-armed SSK Submarines.

Methinks this decision by Iran is only the beginning = inklings of a more ulterior plan.
Also, iff Iran is able to dominate LEBANON [Syria?] via HEZBOLLAH, then among other Iran will be able to acquire external Milbase Rights for its Armed Forces + IRGC.

Read, LEB-BASED IRANIAN MISSLE, ATTACK SUBS off ISRAEL while ISRAEL is NOT able to do same to Iran becuz of sensitive RED SEA GEOPOLS WID EGYPT + SOMALIA???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-24 19:42||   2011-01-24 19:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Anonymoose, with the world as anti-Israel as it is, including our own beloved president and many of his party members in Congress, it needs to be a concatenation of unfortunate events. Stuxnet for ships, bits of drifting nets, Silkworm missiles accidentally shot off by Hizb'allah, inshallah maintenance leading to key bits falling off, electrical storms on the sun interrupting satellite communications, phone alarms going off every 37 minutes round the clock...

Then send the unseaworthy things back to Turkey. Letting them dock in Israel only encourages them.

/Isn't brainstorming fun!
Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-24 20:29||   2011-01-24 20:29|| Front Page Top

#12 "Iran Planning To Send Fleet To Mediterranean Off Israel"

What, both rowboats at the same time?

Yeah, that'll have the Juice quaking in their sandals.

Yessir, yewbetcha.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-01-24 22:06||   2011-01-24 22:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Then there is always the underwater magnetic-kinetic leak acceleration device......
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-01-24 22:17||   2011-01-24 22:17|| Front Page Top

#14 The 'home-made destroyer' is essentially a reverse-engineered copy of a Vosper design. Not sure about the full armament, but it supposedly carries Chinese-built or licensed anti-ship missiles.
Posted by Pappy 2011-01-24 22:23||   2011-01-24 22:23|| Front Page Top

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