Article

2015-12-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran test fires rockets near US warship, sparking concern

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-12-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Makes monitoring the test easier.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-12-30 00:39|| 2015-12-30 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 [NOKOR-VS-USS-GEORGE-WASHINGTON CVN here].

China/PLA ordered, NOKOR-fired.

This is only the beginning.

I have no doubts that Iran = China in SCS = eventually try or claim control of most or all of the Persian Gulf as an Iranian-n-Only-Iranian "lake".

Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama has all of 2016 to commit more FP "intentional mistakes"- WHAT HE DOESN'T FINISH OR COMPLETE BY THE TIME HE LEAVES THE WH COME JAN 2017, ANY SIMILAR ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST POTUS SUCCESSOR(S?) WILL DO.

IRAN + CHINA + RUSSIA, OTHER? WILL GET THEIR ANTI-US "SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE".

* E.G. FREEREPUBLIC > GLOBALIST BERNIE SANDERS VERSUS NATIONALIST DONALD TRUMP.

Aka "AMERIKA-VS-AMERICA", as I like to put it.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-12-30 01:56|| 2015-12-30 01:56|| Front Page Top

#3 I fear you are right Joe.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-12-30 03:53|| 2015-12-30 03:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Aside from Iranian 'bluster', consider:
1) last I checked in American measure 1500 yds~1 mile. That's a fur piece.
2) event was announced
3) unguided 'rocket'
4) fast inshore attack craft~speed boat
5) Unless Harry's crew was asleep, the active defense systems were alerted by and responsive to the launch
6) Unless everybody else was asleep, Harry's counterfire defenses were monitored across the electromagnet and visual spectrum.

All the players, even the passive ones, got a training opportunity.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-12-30 08:16|| 2015-12-30 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds as if an actual attack by an Iranian bottle rocket shooter would have aggravated the carriers 1st division most of all - a bunch of repainting would have likely negatively impacted beer-thirty for the Bosun gang.

Posted by Super Hose 2015-12-30 11:41|| 2015-12-30 11:41|| Front Page Top

#6 New this sunny Guam AM = New Year's Eve ...

* YAHOO NEWS > [Natinal Interest] UNTHINKABLE: WHAT IF AMERICA "WALKED AWAY" FROM ASIA.

"Guam will capsize" = USN Pearl Harbor Battleship USS "OKLAHOMA", as will other key Pacific islands deemed of use to China + PLA, andor Nuclear Islam = Nuke Caliphate but espec CHINA, in Anti-China/Caliphate "A2/AD" indignation by the NOW DE FACTO "WEAK/DECLINING" RETREATING SUPERPOWER OR CO-SUPERPOWER USA.

THE STRUGGLE FOR GUAM-WESTPAC IS KEY.

Again, CAN THE SUPERPOWER OR CO-SUPERPOWER USA STILL BE SUCH IFF IT UNILATERALLY GIVES UP 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC, + 1/2 OF THE ATLANTIC, ETC. TO OWG GEOPOL RIVALS + WANNABES, EITHER NATION-STATES OR NGOS.

The third-parties local response to the above thus far has been a resounding "NO".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-12-30 21:50|| 2015-12-30 21:50|| Front Page Top

22:03 JosephMendiola
21:50 JosephMendiola
21:37 trailing wife
21:32 Super Hose
21:28 Super Hose
21:25 Super Hose
21:24 Rex Mundi
21:23 Super Hose
21:20 Super Hose
21:06 Super Hose
20:58 Super Hose
20:56 Super Hose
20:48 Super Hose
20:48 badanov
20:45 Super Hose
20:42 Super Hose
20:37 Super Hose
20:34 Super Hose
20:16 rjschwarz
20:15 rjschwarz
20:11 rjschwarz
20:10 rjschwarz
20:04 Super Hose
19:52 Super Hose