Iranian naval ships dock at Syrian Tartus port

Originally posted by LeBombDiggity
reply to post by Vitchilo

 

That little ship Jamaran & it's helicopter packs a modest punch, but it's a punch no US naval captain would volunteer to take. Anti submarine torpedoes, anti ship missiles, anti aircraft missiles. A neat, home-grown little ship which does what it says on the tin. It's based on the Vosper Mk5, a old English design, smaller version of the now redundant Royal Navy Type 21 frigate.

Size isn't everything, you know.

Unless that ship is the size of a fly, any U.S. warship equipped with Aegis or better will see it coming from a looong way and our ships have guns that can launch shells several miles away. In terms of technology Iran is no threat to us. A war between the U.S. and Iran would be like a green beret fighting a caveman....

...or like the french did in WWI when they sent a cavalry charge at the german frontlines who just happened to be packing fully automatic weapons, nerve gas and flamethrowers behind rows of barbedwire.

Russian Navy Tanker, Ivan Bubnov, has now transited through the Bosphorus and into the Black Sea.

From the Morse weather transmission. Weather edited out.

23 February, 18 GMT

4851 RCJG 23181 99418 10299 22212

41.8N 29.9E Heading North East at 6-10 Knots

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