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2019-12-13 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran’s IRGC allegedly surrounds US aircraft carrier near Strait of Hormuz
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Posted by Fred 2019-12-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
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#1 Come a little closer, my dears. Want a cookie, little boys?
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-13 08:43||   2019-12-13 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Should make Eddie Gallagher that ship's cook.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-13 09:00||   2019-12-13 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Carrier groups at sea take up a lot of acreage.

Twenty small craft doesn't sound like a 'surround' condition.

More like hyenas circling a pride of lions.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-12-13 09:00||   2019-12-13 09:00|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Remember USS Cole.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-13 09:04||   2019-12-13 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Thought experiment. What would have happened if the carrier attacked and called in a strike group on them citing hostile maneuvers and perceived threat ?
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-13 09:21||   2019-12-13 09:21|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd be surprised if the escort ships actually allowed them to get that close. Sounds like BS
Posted by Frank G 2019-12-13 09:31||   2019-12-13 09:31|| Front Page Top

#7 My take as well Frank. What naval flag officer would take a chance on something like that ?
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-13 09:33||   2019-12-13 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 It's one thing to get close to one of the destroyers/cruisers screening the carrier. It's quite another to get close to the carrier.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-12-13 10:25||   2019-12-13 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 I would consider the source. Of the report.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-12-13 10:32||   2019-12-13 10:32|| Front Page Top

#10 i wouldnt be surprised if they managed to get between the escorts and carrier. from my experience, ship captains are almost too afraid to take a shit without getting permission from COMDESRON or higher. they are only there to put their 1 tour in as "Captiain" so they can check off that box box and then keep climbing the ladder pierside.

NOTHING happens without running it thru stateside first.
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2019-12-13 10:36||   2019-12-13 10:36|| Front Page Top

#11 400 yards from a carrier? Yeah I call bullshit. More warmongering propaganda trying to start a conflict.

America loses the moment we go kinetic with Iran. The only winning move is not to play.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-12-13 16:31||   2019-12-13 16:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Herb, it's an Iranian news agency, I think. Iran may be acting tough for the locals, but knows better than to try a stunt like that for real.
Posted by gorb 2019-12-13 18:02||   2019-12-13 18:02|| Front Page Top

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