Opening the straight not hard at all

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Tell us when you saw a Mk48 impact and explode directly into the screws of a ship and at least one screw was not disabled.

Unless something goes hopelessly wrong, and/or the crew is incapable of even the most rudimentary damage control procedures, a Mk48 hitting the ass of a VLCC - ships of 250,000 to 350,000 tons displacement - won't cause enough loss of buoyancy to sink.

A MK 48 warhead is designed to break a ship's keel. often beaking the ship in two. That makes for a very messy environmental disaster. Didn't think about that did you?

 

[Blaster]

It is an illegitimate government that is being removed. A government that was actively seeking to destroy the West in favor of their fucked up world view.

Yes indeed.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

A simple little thing like criticizing the SecWar about spending that has happened for at least 100+ years under all administrations and he suddenly has a problem with feeding our troops well on occasion?

Yeah, not a stretch to conclude he hates our troops.

Do we know that they actually feed the troops with it, if so I'm cool with that.

 

[Darkwind]

Do we know that they actually feed the troops with it, if so I'm cool with that.

Given that every single member asked has said they look forward to those days, then yes.

Who would lie about something like that?

 

[Blaster]

Do we know that they actually feed the troops with it, if so I'm cool with that.

You are just a negative person. You probably hate yourself.

 

[Blaster]

Given that every single member asked has said they look forward to those days, then yes.

Who would lie about something like that?

My brother enjoyed lobster and steak on occasion when he served.

 

[justoffal]

The word is "strait" because it is not straight.

Knock off the rudder and propeller? Easy peasy. Tell us how!

From what I've been told that is a standard naval procedure.... But then again I've never been in the Navy. If it's too difficult to do that then sink the damn thing. There's absolutely nothing over the size of a life raft that gets through there without being on United States satellite images. They knew where that ship was they knew where it came from and where it's going. Why would they allow it to go through? It doesn't have a Klingon invisibility cloak I'm sure.

 

[justoffal]

So open it then, what are we waiting for?

Iran has a planned escalation policy, that's what all the retired US military men are saying if you listen to them on Youtube, they know far more about it than knuckle draggers like you.

You do realize that Iran can and might hit the Petroline in Saudi Arabia? So escalating against Iran is not a simple game of just hitting them, they are in many respects here, in control.

That pipeline is 700 miles long, do you think that can be realistically defended against a drone attack?

Stop all Iranian boat traffic.... Iran will go broke in a week without their oil business.
Maybe they don't want a giant oil slick?
I guess I could understand that.

 

[justoffal]

Trump gets all the gas he wants free in Airforce one, two, three, 4, Pete's got all the money he needs too. Kash, Noem, Lobster and steak. Billions of dollars. They have the resolve. And the American people will suffer for Trump. We are suffering because of tariffs and now his war.

We lost jobs in December and February. That's pretty close to being a recession.

We blamed biden because supply chain disruptions and the ukraine war drove gas prices up. Now it is Trump's fault gas prices are even higher than they were then.

The March 2026 U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran triggered the largest disruption in the history of the Strait of Hormuz, halting nearly all maritime traffic and halting approximately 20% of global oil supply. Trump did this.

Iran was going to do this sooner or later.Why allow them to do it on their own terms?

 

[Darkwind]

My brother enjoyed lobster and steak on occasion when he served.

We did as well, but I was never deployed forward.

 

[M14 Shooter]

A MK 48 warhead is designed to break a ship's keel. often beaking the ship in two. That makes for a very messy environmental disaster. Didn't think about that did you?

All I see here is your admission that you have never observed a Mk48 hitting a ship on the screws and not disabling at least one of them -- so, when you say "it doesn't always work", and try to back it up with your claim that you were a submariner, you're actually just talking out your ass.

You also seem to be unaware of the fact the dept of a Mk48 can be set, making it impossible a properly operating weapon to get under a VLCC and break her in half.

But hey -tell me why you believe a single Mk48 will break a Nimitz-class CVN - a ship which displaces maybe half of a VLCC - in two. Don't worry - I fully expect you to talk out your ass again.

 

[justoffal]

So open it then, what are we waiting for?

Iran has a planned escalation policy, that's what all the retired US military men are saying if you listen to them on Youtube, they know far more about it than knuckle draggers like you.

You do realize that Iran can and might hit the Petroline in Saudi Arabia? So escalating against Iran is not a simple game of just hitting them, they are in many respects here, in control.

That pipeline is 700 miles long, do you think that can be realistically defended against a drone attack?

I think we can no longer worry about what they can do to us, because they're going to do everything sooner or later anyway.

 

[Churchill]

Stop all Iranian boat traffic.... Iran will go broke in a week without their oil business.

They'll bomb oil facilities in US aligned Gulf states.

Maybe they don't want a giant oil slick?

They're fighting for their existence.

I guess I could understand that.

No, you can't. The US has never faced an existential threat.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Just a matter of resolve....

An Iranian tanker has just made it through on its way to China.

Sink it!

Not hard, one maybe two torpedoes.

Don't want to sink it? Knock off the rudder and propeller.

Iran is not the only country that can close the straight.

If no one else gets through neither do the Iraian ships.

This is not at all hard.

Jo

I like it. Hit Kharg with multiple thermobaeric bombs. Hit all Iran's water facilities. Then hit their power facilities. Send in the marines to find the nuke fuel. Blow it up in place so the region is uninhabitable for 1,000 years.

Then leave. And I mean everything we have out of the ME and Europe. On the way back seize Greenland, Cuba, Canada and invade Venezuela, Columbia, and Panama. Turn them into US territories and then states in ten years.

Invade and annex all of Central America including Mexico in 2027. In 2028 invade south until all the Americas are ours. Then our future is secured.

 

[Churchill]

I think we can no longer worry about what they can do to us, because they're going to do everything sooner or later anyway.

Funny, that's what they're saying about you.

 

[braalian]

I would argue that the fact that the best the Iranian military can do at this point is harass merchet shipping immediately off their coast says a lot more about them being weak AF than it does about them being strong....

 

[MarathonMike]

Just a matter of resolve....

An Iranian tanker has just made it through on its way to China.

Sink it!

Not hard, one maybe two torpedoes.

Don't want to sink it? Knock off the rudder and propeller.

Iran is not the only country that can close the straight.

If no one else gets through neither do the Iraian ships.

This is not at all hard.

Jo

Yup I posted that the other day, precision strike on the rudder, take over the tanker.

 

[braalian]

Yup I posted that the other day, precision strike on the rudder, take over the tanker.

is that precise of a strike even possible?

 

[justoffal]

Funny, that's what they're saying about you.

I would think that you're probably right.

 

[justoffal]

They'll bomb oil facilities in US aligned Gulf states.

They're fighting for their existence.

No, you can't. The US has never faced an existential threat.

I guess I could understand them not wanting to make an oil slick. That's why they allowed the Iranian ship to go through.Of course, the United States has been in an existential crisis, many times.