Holy Creezap!
If Iran could build a replical of a US Aircrap Carrier and bomb it, could America not build a replica of something Iranian and bomb it?
How’s about bombing a replica of an Iranian Ayatollah?
“The aim of the drill was to practise how to sink an American carrier, at least two of which patrol the Gulf at any given time.”
Because it takes the same amount of effort to sink a *replica *of an aircraft carrier as it does to sink an *actual *aircraft carrier?
Can you think of any other power that might threaten Iran with a carrier fleet?
A shoddy replica.
Unarmed.
A real carrier is a very different beast.
UK, France, or Russia.
Wow, they could do a lot of damage to US carrier if they found in the ocean.
Stopped dead in the water…
without it’s air wing…
or escort ships.
We’ve gotten pretty good at bombing real stuff.
Now if they tried to bomb an aircraft carrier, I’d be concerned. A bit.
Until they start using “tora, tora, tora” as a radio call-sign , I ain’t worried.
(Yeah – I know the carriers were gone. But they didn’t)
Like a War of the Replicants? Wasn’t that a Troma release in 87?
Even more so if it was a helicarrier. It would mean, apparently, that Iran has the Winter Soldier on their side.
Which Nostril would you like us to thread? Right or Left?
The aircrap carrier is an underrated element in the naval force, if Iran feels threatened by it.
Or India, if suitably provoked, but that’s quite unlikely. (All right, so Brazil is the other one left with a “real” (not Harrier-hauler) carrier, but really what would they ever be doing there?)
Aircraft carriers serve no purpose beyond projecting power against 3rd world nations. They wouldn’t stand up to attack from a major world power.
Attacking one comes with a political price because it can respond with enough force to destroy any nation on earth beyond recognition.
Apparently those carriers are doing their job and scaring the crap out of our enemies.
Combining these on a personal level, years ago I saw advertisements for toilet paper imprinted with the Ayatollah.
Maybe they should buy one of the carriers we’re scrapping. You know so they can try to damage something made of metal.
You know, I don’t see what the big deal is. Armies train against potential threats, and an American carrier could definitely be called that. As for it being made of wood - I know that people aren’t made out of cardboard, but I’ve still shot enough man-shaped cut-outs in my day. How else do you practice?
I don’t like Iran all that much, but I can’t fault the Iranian army for acting like an army.
This. ISTR that US military planners had war plans for fighting the UK in the 20th Century in case it ever came to that, and I’d be on the whole surprised to learn that they didn’t still. (Naval plans probably just amount to “sink the three canoes and a tugboat that’s all Britain can float these days”, really.)
Exactly.
Also: There’s a good chance this was done, at least in part, for domestic reasons, i.e. in order to please the country’s hardliners and hawks, give the home crowd the impression that the country’s armed forces are strong, capable, etc., etc.