Iranian Navy Plans to Send Ships To US Waters

I think it makes actually fighting wars easier, though I'm not sure of the actual reasoning behind it...

USAF, Canada also has a joint service, and has since '68 (IIRC, and not without a lot of bitching from the command levels, some of whom were given early retirement for their troubles).

Anyway, I can't see the Iranians bringing any of their overglorified rowboats with missiles along, which severely cuts down on their firepower. They simply don't have the legs or seaworthiness to make the trip.

Really, I can't see this as anything more than propaganda material, both to distract from local problems and for "see, we showed up the Great Satan in his own waters" bragging. The rest of the world knows it's petty bullshit that means [MiB]precisely dick[/MiB], but the people in Iran have much more limited access to information not from the state-run media.

edited 27th Sep '11 7:22:57 PM by Nohbody

Hypothesis: Someone use the opportunity to stage a coup.

Maybe the Iranians have learned to automate their entire craptacular navy using technology stolen from drones shot down in Pakistan so that they can get rid of the useless vessels in utterly glorious fashion televised to the world. Then, using a comination of oil revenue and money that would come from the phenomenal ratings of filming the "battle" live, the Iranians buy new ships from the Chinese and instantly get the Islamic Navy of Glory and Iran!

I iz scared.

You forgot the part where they take out an enormous insurance policy on the whole fleet right before they do this.

But, once again, seriously, I say let them try. If they can make the trip just ignore them, we don't need to feed the trolls, besides, then our navy might get thumped for taking troll bait.

edited 27th Sep '11 7:44:11 PM by Balmung

Sneak SEA Ls on board of a few battlecruisers, tag their bridges with graffiti, take photos, show on Internet before the next Iranian elections, deep-six the Iranian political stunt.

If you can pull this off without starting a war? Epic Win.

You do realize that the biggest ship they have is a destroyer, right?

That's the biggest ship class most navies have. Not exactly a diminutive there.

i don't think this is more than propaganda material

They just going to have their ship cruising along near US border (means 200km away from beach of outermost islands) then claiming to Iranian People how glorious their mighty Navy and having photo-op.

The point was more of they don't have anything that could be called a "battlecruiser"

And once again, I say just let them. It's not worth making a big deal about and it just gives them the attention they crave.

So basically this is the nationalist propaganda version of saying you can lose up to 20 pounds.

No, this is the nationalist propaganda equivalent of that annoying neighborhood kid going "I'mmmm not touching yooo!" and then coming within inches of doing so.

edited 27th Sep '11 9:25:10 PM by FFShinra

Precisely, but Iran is the mean girl who's convinced she's super pretty and we can't let her lose the weight!

Ya know, I kind of like the idea of having SEALS prank them.

Or if they go through the Pacific we can get those anti-whaling groups to harass them.

Whale Wars: Iran?

....Make it happen!!

One wonders how much money they're going to waste on this stupid stunt.

Can't be cheap to send warships around the world, especially a large number of inefficient ones.

edited 27th Sep '11 9:46:58 PM by deathjavu

Sure, Iran, send your little rowboats out against the world's biggest navy for no reason! This doesn't make you look like you have too much time on your hands, not at all. On a related note, you also all must have enormous cocks.

edited 27th Sep '11 9:47:05 PM by tropetown

Maybe they'll cheat and just get ridiculously close to the 5th Fleet at Manama....

4chan's /k/ (weapons) board chimes in: http://boards.4chan.org/k/res/9821715 (I guess /k/ isn't as big on asshattery in the /b/ vein, the thread is SFW aside from some f-bombs)

I love the suggestion of rolling out the Iowa's for one last mission.

edited 27th Sep '11 10:59:53 PM by Deboss

Iran trying Gunboat Diplomacy on the US? If I wasn't so confuddled, I'd laugh.

I have a theory about Iran. I think they are using Refuge in Audacity to make people not take them seriously. For example, their nuclear program. everyone thinks it exists to create a balance of terror with Israel since they seem to hate them to the point of holocaust denial, but nobody ask themselves why Iran is developing missiles that could carry nukes to Europe? (They already have missiles that could reach Israel).

I think that the real reason for Iran nuclear program is because they are planning to conquer the entire Middle East and recreate the Persian Empire and they don't want the western world to interfere so they plan to intimidate it with nukes.[/wmg]

So this latest scheme of theirs is just another attempt to make the world think they are nothing but a bunch of crazy wannabes

edited 28th Sep '11 2:49:55 AM by nnokwoodeye

Nice theory, except that nobody is intimidated. Well, except for Israel, but they have to live next to Iran, anyways, and "intimidated" is stretching it.

edited 28th Sep '11 2:48:25 AM by tropetown

Exactly, nobody thinks there is a threat, Just as Planned. And everybody would continue thinking that until Iran would invade Iraq and stop the world from interfering by threatening to nuke France

edited 28th Sep '11 2:53:07 AM by nnokwoodeye

And then France, chortling into their baguettes, would blow Iran to smithereens. And That's Terrible.

edited 28th Sep '11 3:00:29 AM by tropetown

Let them sail into port if they want. Don't waste money on this idiocy, let them pay for the whole pointless venture themselves, its their money.