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Old 07-25-2017, 5:35pm   #1
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US Navy ship fires warning shots at Iranian ship in Persian Gulf | Fox News

New sheriff in town, Iran. I'm guessing that means no more hostage sailors or intimidating ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. But hey, why not try it again?
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It's about time..
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With our new president looks like our Navy will not take anymore BS from tin pan Iranian so called navy.
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Only problem I have is that it was warning shots. Should have been one warning shot with the next ones directed at the other vessels bridge
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They won't respect the handle if you don't show them the handle.
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A Cyclone-class patrol craft warded off an Iranian patrol boat that was approaching a U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser on Tuesday in the Persian Gulf, a Navy official told USNI News.

USS Thunderbolt (PC-12) fired “multiple warning shots” after an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Nassar-class patrol boat came within 150 yards of the patrol craft and one nautical mile of nearby cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG-72). The incident occurred at about 10:20 A.M. local time, or about 3:20 A.M. EST, according to video of the encounter obtained by USNI News.

“We are operating in the Northern Arabian Gulf,” said a watch stander on the cruiser.
“We have zero one IRGCN Nassar WOP one nautical mile off our stern bearing one eight zero degrees relative. [General Quarters] one has been set.”

Thunderbolt was operating with two Coast Guard cutters and a U.S. Army logistics vessel in a screen around Vella Gulf as part of a U.S.-only exercise when the formation was approached by the Iranian PC, the official said.
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I ASSume the white boat was the iranians....sure looked like a confiscated old pleasure yacht....
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