I guarantee Iran is using these chuckle-fucks to gauge our ships’ defenses.
Good luck, if you’ve seen ciws and rfm going full blast you can understand it’s unlikely for much to get through.
Warning mind numbing brrrrrrrrtttt. https://youtu.be/BnrSTkidXa8?si=AdRjdaduurQfIkbZ
Warning very loud but no brrrrttttt just cute covers popping off and missiles exploding. https://youtu.be/vxy8XcE1VjE?si=Mw94GY3Qxi0fwI1P
Ed: Three spread out over 2ish km https://youtu.be/XceGKHATcYE?si=ptUSXyFS2rNCPXuf
A Nimitz has 4 in less than a km with 2 rfm in a carrier strike group with 2 cruisers with 2 ciws each, 7 destroyers with 1ciws each and various surface support ships often with at least one ciws. That’s at least 15 of these bad boys with converging areas of coverage and a carrier airwing that can act with impunity while ciws blankets the sky in lead and sweet music.
Yeah, I’m guessing most of the crew on these ships are just excited to see the guns go off instead of being actually worried about an attack. It takes a lot to bring down a US warship.
That said, I don’t recommend anyone try. Even if you do manage to take one out, the rest of the fleet will be coming after you. A US warship is rarely alone.
It takes a ton of fucking balls or abject stupidity to even try. Legit the last time someone did actual damage to one of ours resulted in the entire Iraqi navy getting sunk in 8 hours and most of their naval infrastructure was destroyed.
You don’t fuck about with the navy, any navy for that matter they’re home country will absolutely slap back.
doubtful, they know that ships have multiple ways to shut down their drones. It’s just to be a fly buzzing around the the metaphorical head of the ship
If I wanted to know more about my enemy I’d send flies at his head
This is at least the third incident in the last month. In the last two, Yemen shot missiles at US and Israeli assets. Yemen needs to calm the fuck down.
Yemen is a puppet of Iran. The Houthi, anyway.
Yeah, they don’t like us much.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_movement
Yep, as a place where:
According to the UN, over 150,000 people have been killed in Yemen (From wikipedia)
They should really calm the fuck down
I fail to see how that’s relevant here.
Are they allowed to shoot Missiles at other People now?
It’s the material conditions making them shoot missiles, you see
Yemen is not one country, but rather in a similar situation to Syria. One Yemeni government is supported by Saudi Arabia while the Houthis, who shot the missiles and are unrecognized, are supported by Iran
I just don’t understand who they didn’t track it back to its source and leave a crater wherever that is.
The US already provides weapons which allow the saudis to bomb the houthis
We’ve been supporting war in Yemen for a bit now. I think since 2014, so nearly a decade. This is the natural result of such. Maybe we need to just stay out of middle eastern blood feuds if we don’t want to have our ships attacked?
Suuure… Just like those boats in the Tonkin bay leading to the Vietnam war
This won’t mean anything more than possible additional support for Ukraine, which the Biden administration (and the majority of Americans) want anyway.
The Vietnam War started long before that.
The French-Vietnamese part of the war did. The justification for heavy American involvement was the Gulf of Tonkin false flag.
That was when the war went public, but the US was pretty involved prior to it.
Okay, but not with massive amounts of troops on the ground doing frontline fighting. The justification for that came from Tonkin.
That was the public war, yes.
If you have a source for there being a large-scale frontline american involvement, or anything beyond advisors or the air force before Tonkin, then I’m all ears.
There wasn’t a large scale, it was just secret operations.
Damn, guess we should go back to our own borders
So you don’t believe in free trade? Without navy ships the global trade market is destroyed and the world quickly falls in a World War.
Evel Knievel couldn’t have made that leap…
Not for anyone who has a basic understanding of geopolitics. Do you want rogue nations hoarding resources? Do you want Superpowers to act as the British Empire did and enslave entire nations and exploit them at the point of a gun? The massive zerg rush to resources would instantly cause a world war. Right now you have a system where the world trades for goods and everyone profits that is a part of that trade. Take that away and you have trouble.
Rogue Nations pillaging oil and land… you’re talking about the USA?
I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but it is possible to want part of the game to work differently without also wanting the complete collapse of the game proper.
I want a lot of things, but that doesn’t mean it is never moderately possible.
The US Navy is the global security provider of free trade on the sea. It is one of their core functions. To ‘just go back to our own borders’ would be to completely remove the only naval force cable of providing security for free trade on the sea and thus remove huge portions of safe, navigable waters for said trade.
Who else has the navy to make it happen? China’s navy has no range, France and England’s navies have the range but aren’t large enough. Everyone else’s navy is too small and can’t deploy at range.
We don’t have pirate fleets anymore and any pirate group that obtains a ship big enough to really be a danger would be eradicated as soon as they showed their hand.
There most certainly are pirates operating in the 21st Century.
It in any meaningful way to world trade though
Because Navy ships patrol those routes. Remove that, and the pirates would be able to expand.
Eradicated by who?
Jewish Space Lasers.
The significantly smaller fleets that aren’t spending their time doing laps but are waiting for the call to splash some pirates
The boats can’t go on land sadly
Good thing we can operate on several fronts.
