Other than Israel responding by glassing all of Iran, what’s to stop Iran from waiting until the wind is blowing the right way and launching a dirty missile at Israel? If it gets intercepted it still spews nuclear material over the country right?
There is nothing to stop this from escalating, I don’t think abrupt, nonsensical nuclear war is off the table for the US or Israel and I don’t think the centrists of the world are ready for that.
We have never been closer to nuclear war in my lifetime and it is almost entirely the fault of the US and Israel.
Let me ask you a question, if every accusation is an admission, what is Trump loudly admitting he is about to do?
not without putting American warships in the line of fire
Did anyone check the definition of a “war” before starting one?
Great, so we can add a “strait of hormuz” incident to the bay of pigs, gulf of tonkin, and other body-of-water-based US military disasters
But the war’s already started, what does Iran have to lose?
Let’s dump the Trump admin in the Hormuz strait
Huh. I was expecting the strategy to be bombing the sites that would launch attacks on shipping, not to actually escort and try to defend the ships.
That strategy failed miserably against the Houthis.
Well see there is the whole issue of Missile Trucks.
Where are they? How many are there? Where are they headed? Which ones are decoys? Where will they deploy to fire?
Does Phalanx work for a convoy or just the ship on which it is deployed?
I guess we will also learn how well it works against cheap drones.
I don’t think any of that works well against artillery shells, and oil tankers are not well armoured.
It works when it’s in range. And it’ll only occasionally spray allied ships because the Phalanx doesn’t check whats behind the target.
gee whiz CIWIS
Phalanx is self defense only. The weapons used to protect nearby ships are ESSM and SM-2 missiles. Which should to work fine to intercept cheap drone, artillery and ballistic missiles. (Tho very expressive to intercept artillery with missiles)
The navy has used those systems recently to defend ships during the Houti crisis in the red sea.
An American destroyer has a large number of area defence interceptor missiles, not just the CIWS. The question is, will the interceptors be completely effective if Iran is able to launch a saturation attack on them, and will they have enough interceptors left by the time they get out of the shooting gallery. Personally, I think even they aren’t stupid enough to try it, but I hope I’m proven wrong.
How much of our air defensive stockpile do you think our russia backed regime can expend protecting the wealth of the royal house of saud?
All of it in a matter of a week or two, easily.
Especially after the US torpedoed the Iris Dena? Fun times.
Sweet, let’s watch some navy ships go down.
Not that , just let trump go down in his titan sub .
I was just thinking that wouldnt it be a bit risky for the warships to escort other ships through since its not somalian pirates on boats, but missiles, drones and who knows what else that are the threat. I doubt they have that much protection against them on every single warship?
Also ive been waiting for the market crash, but it seems that the world (not only maga) buys anything that the orange butt-plug says and this is a good example of that
With Iran already being economically isolated for years before this war, there’s not enough new risk of further economic damage to cause a market crash.
There seriously is not enough alcohol for this administration.
Not with Patel and Kegsbreath chugging it.
4D Chess irl.
