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2022-06-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US Navy warship fires warning flare after Iranian fast attack boat almost CRASHES into it: Three military speed boats buzz the USS Sirocco in latest tense stand-off in Strait of Hormuz
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A US warship fired a warning flare to wave off an Iranian speedboat on Monday

  • The boat was speeding at Cyclone-class patrol ship USS Sirocco during a tense encounter in the Strait of Hormuz

  • Tensions remain high over stalled negotiations of Iran's tattered nuclear deal
Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 I'm going to say this now, this crazy **s US strategy of "don't fire until fired upon" rule of engagement is going to get a big hole in one of their ships and many servicemen killed. Who ever ordered those US vessels to allow those Iranian speed boats to get that close need to be suspended! Maybe the US is waiting for Israel to "pull the trigger" on their upcoming major offensive???
Posted by Cheamp Hupoling1115 2022-06-22 03:34||   2022-06-22 03:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Agreed.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-22 04:11||   2022-06-22 04:11|| Front Page Top

#3 A "Clear and Present Danger" appears to be prerequisite for successful geopolitics today. Destroy just enough of the enemy and his capability to produce the appearance of battlefield success. A global 'catch and release' program appears to have been given birth. A twenty year engagement in Afghanistan might provide an accurate example.

Iran should have been bitc* slapped into the 6th Century BC decades ago.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-22 04:26||   2022-06-22 04:26|| Front Page Top

#4 A "Clear and Present Danger" appears to be prerequisite for successful geopolitics today.

Sadly, even if it's of our own making.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-22 08:22||   2022-06-22 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 2016 U.S.–Iran naval incident. Some 'mad mullah' wants a repeat?
Posted by magpie 2022-06-22 09:38||   2022-06-22 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 If I were captain on a fighting ship named Sirocco, the flare launch would have been preceded by fire hoses using a mixture of petrol. Give that speed boat a booty bump wake check to set the stage.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-22 10:19||   2022-06-22 10:19|| Front Page Top

#7 No worries, the crew of the US S Sirocco misgendered them as they passed close aboard, making them immediately need to find a safe space.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-06-22 10:24||   2022-06-22 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Do warning flares come in .50 caliber?
Posted by SteveS 2022-06-22 11:52||   2022-06-22 11:52|| Front Page Top

#9 White phosphorus shell for 5" gun?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-22 11:59||   2022-06-22 11:59|| Front Page Top

#10 The Cyclone Class is small and lightly armed. It is a head scratcher why they would be in the straits. Maybe they had back-up that I am not aware of. I think it was a mistake to not replace the Perry Class comparably. The littoral stuff never made sense to me. Getting surface help from SOHEPA for a Cyclone in an ambush is not going to work.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-06-22 12:29||   2022-06-22 12:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe for patrolling The Western Interior Seaway.

USNI:

The Navy next week will host an open-source table-top wargame to experiment with how climate change could affect a future conflict, a service official said today.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-22 13:43||   2022-06-22 13:43|| Front Page Top

#12 The actual coming climate change, not the imaginary anthropocentric one Kerry et al are grifting, will involve the need for more icebreakers?

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/the-coming-mini-ice-age-cyclical-movement-of-the-tropics-belt-itself/
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-06-22 13:52||   2022-06-22 13:52|| Front Page Top

#13 You'll be glad to know the next New Thing is to get a climate change awareness chicken diaper face mask in the specially designated virtue signal design - basically it looks like a bar code which has been colorized blue/white/then red.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-22 14:40||   2022-06-22 14:40|| Front Page Top

#14 #10 SOHEPA: Straits of Hormuz Eastern Patrol Area.

Not easy to find, for this landlubber.
Posted by Bobby 2022-06-22 15:33||   2022-06-22 15:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Three military speed boats buzz the USS Sirocco

So now the passive sonar submarine has a 3-D hull map of the Sirocco.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-22 15:34||   2022-06-22 15:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Iran declared war on the U.S. in 1979. why are we not shooting at them?
Posted by irish rage boy 2022-06-22 16:47||   2022-06-22 16:47|| Front Page Top

#17 "Stand to, all youse ladies and germs,"
Sings Joe to his handfuls of woims,
"And I won't give two farks
You was eaten by sharks
If me shipmatesk squirms into two terms!"
[toot toot]
Posted by Pancho Whager8933 2022-06-22 17:46||   2022-06-22 17:46|| Front Page Top

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