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Hey don't lump me in with the nancies who are to shy to engage in combat. My motto as an ORO was "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!".
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Halifax Tar
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Can I ask what tummy sticks is, and how one plays it ?
Are you making the statement that a harpoon hitting that ship wouldn't have caused casualties ?
Could have fooled me.
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For someone not shy to engage, you are doing a lot of bemoaning that an in-contact asset engaged a target instead of stalking it while dragging another asset into the fight. You are prepared to compromise surprise and economy of effort, which can cost missed opportunities and lives.
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The pilot of the Kuwaiti aircraft is no doubt a jihadist fighting the Great Satan
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I think if the situation was reversed, an Iranian sub wouldn't hesitate to sink a US warship, armed or not.
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100% true.
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Damn. I knew he was good, but that he literally walked on water...
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On the girls school bombing. The investigation is still ongoing but it's not looking good.
www.reuters.com
And this doesn't bode well. Back in February Caine himself warned that the US Military didn't have the ammunition to win a war with Iran, contradicting what Trump claimed.
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U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, two U.S. officials told Reuters.
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And this doesn't bode well. Back in February Caine himself warned that the US Military didn't have the ammunition to win a war with Iran, contradicting what Trump claimed.
US general's alarming warning to Trump before he bombed Iran
General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, directly contradicted the president's claim about the U.S. military's readiness for a war, according to a bombshell report.
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Halifax Tar
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What is wrong with you ?
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I found a literal interpretation to be an amusing image.
Do any of us actually believe those ships were unarmed? Honestly that sounds more like social media BS that’s taken on a life of its own. I read elsewhere that the ex even had a live fire component.
Might be that their posture was visibly lower, but I donmt imagine many countries would send their ships out defenseless…
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Great question. Having read reports from India media and on the exercise itself, they do state that the ships were to be 'unarmed'. It could be that the foreign warships/planes were to be unarmed but that the Indian ships would be armed?
Also reading that the US submarine has been named - USS Charlotte
I’m not a boaty guy. Is this maybe gonna be some distinction like “loaded” versus “readied”? (Obviously more technical than that)- but weapons states designed to utterly prevent the possibility of an ND?
It seems utterly implausible to me that naval vessels would have all their ship’s weapons unloaded for a transit to an exercise, the ex itself, then transit back.
But this is a situation where I don’t know what I don’t know; all I’ve got is a stinky sniff test.
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I agree.
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No no. What I'm saying is that the delivery platform (in this case, a P8) is at less potential risk from the Dera than the submarine is. While its clear that the Dera was not in any way aware of the submarine's presence, it at least had the capability of engaging the submarine with it's own torpedoes (although, some recent reporting is indicating that the ship may not have had any weapons aboard). The P8, on the other hand, can fire on the Dera from far outside the SAM range of the Dera's missiles.
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Effects....
“If I just walk back a couple of years, remember what you used to always hear, we’re shooting down a $50,000 drone with a $2 million missile,” he added. “These days, we’re spending a lot of time shooting down $100,000 drones with $10,000” weapons.
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“Costing approximately $35,000 per platform, LUCAS is a low-cost, scalable system that provides cutting-edge capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional long-range U.S. systems that can deliver similar effects,” Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesperson, told TWZ back in December. “The drone system has an extensive range and the ability to operate beyond line of sight, providing significant capability across CENTCOM’s vast operating area.”
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“The Iranian regime has launched over 500 ballistic missiles and over 2,000 drones,” Adm. Brad Cooper said in a video message.
“Iran’s theater ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% from the first day of fighting, with a 23% decrease just in the last 24 hours, and their one-way attack drone shots are down 73% from the opening days,” Caine told reporters, including from The War Zone, at a Wednesday morning press conference. “This progress has allowed CENTCOM to establish localized air superiority across the southern flank of the Iranian coast and penetrate their defenses with overwhelming precision and firepower. We will now begin to expand inland, striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory and creating additional freedom of maneuver for U.S forces.”
“More bombers and more fighters are arriving, just today,” Hegseth said. “And now with complete control of the skies, we will be using 500-pound, 1,000-pound and 2,000-pound GPS and laser-guided precision gravity bombs, of which we have a nearly unlimited stockpile.”
“We used more exquisite standoff munitions at the start, but no longer need to,” the secretary proclaimed. “Our stockpiles of those, as well as Patriots [air defense interceptors], remain extremely strong. The enemy can no longer shoot the volume of missiles they once did. Not even close.”
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Another big factor in the reduction of Iranian missile launches could be how CENTCOM has concentrated striking command and control (C2) nodes, degrading Tehran’s ability to communicate and direct fires.
Iranian (C2) “structures in a bad way,” Caine posited. “Admiral Cooper has been continuing to pressure the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] IRGC C2 and other military elements, and will continue to do so.”
www.twz.com
www.twz.com
“If I just walk back a couple of years, remember what you used to always hear, we’re shooting down a $50,000 drone with a $2 million missile,” he added. “These days, we’re spending a lot of time shooting down $100,000 drones with $10,000” weapons.
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“Costing approximately $35,000 per platform, LUCAS is a low-cost, scalable system that provides cutting-edge capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional long-range U.S. systems that can deliver similar effects,” Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesperson, told TWZ back in December. “The drone system has an extensive range and the ability to operate beyond line of sight, providing significant capability across CENTCOM’s vast operating area.”
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“The Iranian regime has launched over 500 ballistic missiles and over 2,000 drones,” Adm. Brad Cooper said in a video message.
“Iran’s theater ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% from the first day of fighting, with a 23% decrease just in the last 24 hours, and their one-way attack drone shots are down 73% from the opening days,” Caine told reporters, including from The War Zone, at a Wednesday morning press conference. “This progress has allowed CENTCOM to establish localized air superiority across the southern flank of the Iranian coast and penetrate their defenses with overwhelming precision and firepower. We will now begin to expand inland, striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory and creating additional freedom of maneuver for U.S forces.”
“More bombers and more fighters are arriving, just today,” Hegseth said. “And now with complete control of the skies, we will be using 500-pound, 1,000-pound and 2,000-pound GPS and laser-guided precision gravity bombs, of which we have a nearly unlimited stockpile.”
“We used more exquisite standoff munitions at the start, but no longer need to,” the secretary proclaimed. “Our stockpiles of those, as well as Patriots [air defense interceptors], remain extremely strong. The enemy can no longer shoot the volume of missiles they once did. Not even close.”
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Another big factor in the reduction of Iranian missile launches could be how CENTCOM has concentrated striking command and control (C2) nodes, degrading Tehran’s ability to communicate and direct fires.
Iranian (C2) “structures in a bad way,” Caine posited. “Admiral Cooper has been continuing to pressure the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] IRGC C2 and other military elements, and will continue to do so.”
Strikes Hobble Iranian Missile Threat As Concerns Over Interceptor Stockpile Mount (Updated)
There is a war of attrition ongoing between Iran's stockpiles of standoff weapons and the U.S. and its allies' supplies of interceptors.
www.twz.com
LUCAS Kamikaze Drones Lauded As "Indispensable" By U.S. Admiral In Charge Of Iran War
Cloned from the Iranian Shahed-136, CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper praised the drones and their performance so far.
www.twz.com
There are reports of an Iranian strike on a tug that was responding to a stricken vessel in the Strait of Hormuz; the crew of the tug are being reported as all killed.
Deliberately killing salvage and rescue efforts is an ugly if unsurprising development.
Deliberately killing salvage and rescue efforts is an ugly if unsurprising development.
