# Iran Bombs a Replica of a US Aircraft Carrier **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 25, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617 "2015-02-25T23:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/1 "2015-02-25T23:28:13Z")
https://player.ooyala.com/player.swf?keepEmbedCode=true&autoplay=1&embedCode=Fza3NsczrXLdB9JMdaKBVd03yuNKQuyC&adSetCode=b20883587d124da4a8f29205f8be38ea 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? ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/2 "2015-02-25T23:46:20Z")
“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? ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/3 "2015-02-25T23:47:41Z")
Can you think of any other power that might threaten Iran with a carrier fleet? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/4 "2015-02-25T23:50:04Z")
A shoddy replica. Unarmed. A real carrier is a very different beast. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/5 "2015-02-25T23:54:27Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > Can you think of any other power that might threaten Iran with a carrier fleet? UK, France, or Russia. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/6 "2015-02-26T00:11:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/7 "2015-02-26T00:33:41Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > 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? We’ve gotten pretty good at bombing real stuff. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/8 "2015-02-26T00:47:31Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > 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? Now if they tried to bomb an **aircraft** carrier, I’d be concerned. A bit. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/9 "2015-02-26T01:35:21Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/10 "2015-02-26T01:50:21Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > 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? Like a War of the Replicants? Wasn’t that a Troma release in 87? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/11 "2015-02-26T01:51:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Now if they tried to bomb an **aircraft** carrier, I’d be concerned. A bit. Even more so if it was a helicarrier. It would mean, apparently, that Iran has the Winter Soldier on their side. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/12 "2015-02-26T01:57:18Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > 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? Which Nostril would you like us to thread? Right or Left? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/13 "2015-02-26T02:03:56Z")
The _aircrap carrier_ is an underrated element in the naval force, if Iran feels threatened by it. > [@robert\_columbia](#): > > UK, France, or Russia. 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?) ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/14 "2015-02-26T02:50:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/15 "2015-02-26T03:48:05Z")
Apparently those carriers are doing their job and scaring the crap out of our enemies. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/16 "2015-02-26T04:25:09Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > How’s about bombing a replica of an Iranian Ayatollah? > [@Morgenstern](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/17 "2015-02-26T04:58:56Z")
Maybe they should buy one of the carriers we’re scrapping. You know so they can try to damage something made of metal. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/18 "2015-02-26T10:29:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/19 "2015-02-26T11:12:41Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617/20 "2015-02-26T11:14:43Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > 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. 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-bombs-a-replica-of-a-us-aircraft-carrier/713617.md?page=2)