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Iran Attacks Fake U.S. Aircraft Carrier
Lets see them attacking a real US aircraft carrier with speedboats. That's gonna be funny to watch.
https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/202...rcraft-carrier |
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I would pay to watch that.
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This does lead to a valid question, can an aircraft carrier by itself successfully defend from a swarm of small speedboats? I'm assuming any deck guns wouldn't be able to angle down enough to shoot in the water nearby. And we all saw from the USS Cole attack how problematic a small suicide boat can be.
What if the Houthis, Iran's proxy terrorists, launched a swarm speedboat attack on one of our carriers? The Strait is pretty narrow in the area, I'm assuming the support ships of the task force wouldn't be able to surround and "protect the quarterback" the way they would in open water. I'm not too troubled by this, because I'm pretty sure Iran knows that, while Trump does not want war, and will generally not take their bait, like our uber expensive drone being shot down, if they actually attacked our naval vessels, it would be an automatic fire and fury response. |
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Yes, but that comes down to the captain having to make the call....is this an actual attack, do I order the sinking of a bunch of boats, causing at best an international incident, or do I stand down until they get within xxxx yards and still appear hostile. In other words, firing first brings on its own risks.
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Also, I'm no naval military expert by a long shot, but don't Carriers rely somewhat on the aircraft on board to be launched to defend the carrier? |
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They pretty much have eyes on 24/7 for any CSG. Planes flying CAP, RADAR, surveillance, EW, suppression.
If the carrier actually decided to deploy aircraft, it would be over very quickly. |
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That is why those ship Captains and Fleet Admirals get paid so much. |
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How much does a fake aircraft carrier cost?
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A carrier battle group is a whole lot of you ain’t getting to the flattop . Guns, missiles, rail guns, CWIS, torpedoes, and I’ll bet stuff I don’t know about. Every ship in the battle group will take a hit for the carrier.
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Add on the top a swarm of Helicopters strafing the line of targets and it would be a good thing.
The Cole was hit because as usual we became complacent in our security. The ship I was on had refueled about 4 months before the Cole. There were some boats trying to make practice runs towards us but they put too much stuff on board and sunk. We had the 50 cals manned and the 38's along with water cannons. It takes something drastic to wake us up, but when we do get awoken..... |
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President Trump has already showed those idiots that he is not messing around with them. Our fleet carriers have enough fire power to put a major hurt on Iran.
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A carrier battle group would never let those small boats get within striking range of the carrier itself. Before they even got to that point, the cans and the frigates would take out those boats. A carrier battle group’s escort vessels only have one job, and that’s to protect the carrier.
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Interesting info, thanks.
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More 3rd world sabre rattling.
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