Iranians "harrass" U.S. Navy Ships In The Strait Of Hormuz

[Trick37_MatrixForum]

WTF?

Thought this was a good place for an FYI.

[Jeff Norton]

Hmmm - messing with USN ships.... bad mojo for Achmed's bathtub boys...

[desert]

I saw that on MSN earlier.
 
"You are going to blow up within minutes", lol. Definitely something to say to "unrecognized" ships.
 
 

[Trick37_MatrixForum]

Saw an article that stated the Iranians "finally realized" that the ships they were saying that to were American ships, and that's when they turned and ran like a bunch of girlie men!  Oh yea, and that was just about when one of our ships was going to open fire....a two-second spray from one of the gatling guns on the ships would end that threat.
 

[Dr. Foo]

The Iranians have been doing this forever. I was in the gulf in 1987 as part of a Marine detachment set up on Mobile Sea Base Hercules. They would make a run and just as they were about to enter the engagement zone they would turn and run. That was until we handed them their a$$ during Operation Praying Mantis!

[marcusm]

Naval combat doesnt work too well in TOAW3. Try Harpoon for a better sim of this.

[golden delicious]

ORIGINAL: marcusm

Naval combat doesnt work too well in TOAW3. Try Harpoon for a better sim of this.

I'm not sure you'd need much software. Maybe simulate it with a pot of boiling water and an anthill.

[Levelworm]

USA cannot afford to fight another war while Iraq is not stablized, Iran knows that and it's just trying to push the line.
 

[marcusm]

Let's face it. TOAW3 and naval combat doesn't mix well.

I am not saying a naval combat scenario would be very interesting but
Iranians do have those super fast torpedoes which could cause some damage.

Would be interesting to see how they behave in Harpoon in fact.

[FaneFlugt]

Iranian army fanboy video. Dosent look impressive.
The moto-cross bikes with the shoulder lauchers are


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbiygasR ... re=related


Thats a nice rap song in the video, it sounds like the refrain is referring
to president ahmajhdinijadadadhaha...?

[marcusm]

Their only strength would be terrain and fighting on their own turf not much else. However, those
seem to have been enough for USSR once.

Are there any hypothetical scenarios about this for TOAW3? I have only seen the Iraq.Iran war so far.

[golden delicious]

ORIGINAL: marcusm

Their only strength would be terrain and fighting on their own turf not much else.

Well, picture the situation IN Iraq only with three times as many people, without the internal divisions and in the mountains instead of in the desert, and with no international support this time.

That's Iran. Knocking off their army won't be a problem, but destroying the army isn't enough any more. One of the reasons why it won't happen.

[marcusm]

On the other hand they have the two front benefit. Remember that Afghanistan succeeded in invading Iran once.

[golden delicious]

ORIGINAL: marcusm

On the other hand they have the two front benefit. Remember that Afghanistan succeeded in invading Iran once.

That's really pretty irrelevant: invading is easy. Occupying is hard.

[marcusm]

Obviously but unlike iraq there's no clan system in place (except among Kurds). If you remove
the Mullahs there's plenty of options for alternate governments.

Al Quaida doesn't really have any infra structure they can use either.

But in TOAW3 that is outside context. Only reason to discuss this here would be within the context of a scenario.
Does any exist to begin with?

[golden delicious]

ORIGINAL: marcusm

Obviously but unlike iraq there's no clan system in place (except among Kurds). If you remove
the Mullahs there's plenty of options for alternate governments.

The Iranian people are reasonable- at the moment. If you are in occupation of their country I can guarantee you that this will change.

Al Quaida doesn't really have any infra structure they can use either.

No, and they never will. Al Qaeda is a Sunni movement, Iran is a Shi'ite country. However, people are perfectly capable of causing trouble without Al Qaeda (not that the term really means anything any more anyway)

Anyway, this is definitely current affairs. Where's JAMiAM with his padlock?

[a white rabbit]

..yahh..
 
..naughty, Trick37', you know the rules around here...

[Dr. Foo]

ORIGINAL: golden delicious

The Iranian people are reasonable- at the moment. If you are in occupation of their country I can guarantee you that this will change.

Absolutely! The Iranian people (most) actually like the US and want friendly relations with the US, but park and M1-A2 Abrams in town square and you will find those same reasonable people will quickly become an insurgent army.

[Trick37_MatrixForum]

ORIGINAL: a white rabbit

..yahh..

..naughty, Trick37', you know the rules around here...

In all honesty, I'm not sure of your meaning here.....

[a white rabbit]

ORIGINAL: Trick37

ORIGINAL: a white rabbit

..yahh..

..naughty, Trick37', you know the rules around here...

In all honesty, I'm not sure of your meaning here.....

..no current affairs..

..there's other boards and other sites for that..

..be good, and you ask James to lock it up, we all make errors..