WarSclerotic

Iran attacks replica US ship in military drill
By David Blair, and Robert Midgley, video source APTN 3:40PM GMT 25 Feb 2015 Via The Telegraph

(It’s fun to pretend, especially when no one actually shoots back. – LS)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches a large-scale naval and air defence drill near a strategic Gulf waterway, during which a replica of a US aircraft carrier is used as a target

(Replicas can be deadly….right? -LS)

Iran’s armed forces launched a speedboat attack on a giant model of a US aircraft carrier on Wednesday as the Revolutionary Guard staged military exercises in the Gulf.

(The Iranians used the element of surprise. – LS)

The aim of the drill was to practise how to sink an American carrier, at least two of which patrol the Gulf at any given time.

(Two for now, but more can and will be rerouted if necessary and I doubt they’ll be replicas. – LS)

Exercise “Great Prophet Nine” showed how the naval wing of the Revolutionary Guard would launch a “swarm” attack, seeking to overwhelm the carrier’s defences by dispatching numerous speedboats to converge on the vessel from all directions.

(Meanwhile, the carrier group would return fire in all directs, put assets in the air and destroy their home bases. – LS)

“American aircraft carriers are very big ammunition depots housing a lot of missiles, rockets, torpedoes and everything else,” said Admiral Ali Fadavi, the naval commander of the Revolutionary Guard. He told state television that hitting a carrier with just one missile could trigger a “large secondary explosion”.

(Yep, a large secondary explosion…in Iran. – LS)

The exercise was carried out near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway at the entrance to the Gulf. The US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is based in the nearby kingdom of Bahrain.
However, American forces believe they have little to fear from the Revolutionary Guard. The US deploys 10 nuclear-powered carriers, each one of which can embark about 80 aircraft with more striking power than the entire Iranian air force.

(We like to call it ‘overwhelming force’. – LS)

Commander Kevin Stephens, the spokesman for the Fifth Fleet, said the exercise had not disrupted maritime traffic. “We’re quite confident of our naval forces’ ability to defend themselves,” he told Associated Press news agency. “It seems they’ve attempted to destroy the equivalent of a Hollywood movie set.”

(Ha….attempted to destroy a Hollywood movie set. Now that’s funny. – LS)

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