Jan 26 - An Iranian F-14 military jet crashed off the Persian Gulf coast today, Reuters has cited Iran's Fars news agency as saying. Local authorities said the plane had been in the air for three minutes when it crashed near the town of Bushihr at 4:30 local time. The governor of the Southern province of Bushir later in the day announced that the wreckage of the jet has been found in the Gulf. There was no exact report on the fate of the two members of the crew. While the Governor of Bushihr, Jafar Pour-Kabgani says that the pilot and copilot were killed in the incident, Fars news agency claims the pilot could survive the crash.The F-14 was retired from the active U.S. Navy fleet in September 2006. The F-14 was only in service with the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, having been exported to Iran in 1976 when the US had amicable diplomatic relations with the then government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Sources estimate the number of F-14A still in IrRAF service by 44.

Originally posted by Badgered1
The aircraft carrier is the very epitome of 'projection.' No need for big battleship guns that need to be in range of the enemy since you have aircraft with unlimited range (with mid-air refueling).

'Sailing right through the strait of Hormuz' isn't tactical. It isn't political. It isn't necessary.

On March 2, 2012, the zionists (isreali mossad and cia agents) who are the stooges of the central banksters, will attack an American naval ship (as they did with the USS Liberty). They will try to sink this ship with a huge loss of life of American sailors. They will pretend to be Iranians to make you mad at Iran. They intend to provoke officialdom in the US and Russia and China into killing us all.

The Enterprise is publicized as being able to achieve a maximum speed of around 33.6 knots (38.7 mph; 62.2 km/h). Assuming an average cruising speed of 30 knots during her 8166 nautical mile journey from Norfolk to the Strait of Hormuz, I calculated a transit time of 11 days.

So we have CVN-65 (6+5=11) departing on 11 March on her 22nd deployment, traveling for 11 days, and arriving on 22 March. Understanding that certain factions amongst the power elite are somewhat obsessed with occult numerology, what might be the significance of these two numbers? A quick search uncovered the following :

• Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the Moon, returning to Earth with 22kg of lunar rock samples.
  
• American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It had 11 crew members and 81 passengers, for a total of 92 (9+2=11) people which died on that flight.
  
• The solar sunspot cycle is approximately 11 years.
  
• 11 is the sacred number of the Magnum Opus (Great Work) in Aleister Crowley’s spiritual philosophy of Thelemic Magick.
  
• In numerology, 11, 22 and 33 are called the Master Numbers. The 22 is considered the most powerful of all numbers. It is often called the Master Builder or Spiritual Master in Form.
  
• There are 22 major arcana cards in the divinatory tarot.
  
• The Titanic was traveling at a speed of 22 knots when it crashed into an iceberg.
  
• There are 22 channels linking the ten “Sephiroth” in the Sefirotic Tree of the Kabbalah.
  
• The Arab League was created on 22 March 1945.
  
• The Enterprise is the oldest of 11 carriers currently in the service of the US Navy.
  
• On 22 January 2012 defense secretary Leon Panetta was on board the Enterprise, and announced that the ship “will steam through the Strait of Hormuz in a direct message to Tehran” on it’s final deployment.