STRIKE ONE, TWO, AND THREE! A THREE-BOAT SIMULATED ATTACK SQUADRON IS WIPED OUT IN SECONDS BY SHIPBORNE LONGBOW HELLFIRE ANTI-SHIP MISSILES. SOURCE: U.S. NAVY.
The Motley Fool: Defense Update Declares U.S. Navy Ready to Take on Iran
(And why that's bad news for Raytheon.)
Faced with an increasingly aggressive Iran in the waters of the Persian Gulf, the United States Navy is looking for a few good missiles (to take them on). Luckily, it may have found the missiles it needs.
Despite all the warm and fuzzy feelings engendered by the recent nuclear accord with Iran, Iranian warships have been giving the U.S. Navy conniptions in the Persian Gulf this year. This week, an Iranian naval frigate trained its guns on a U.S. Navy helicopter that was performing training maneuvers with an auxiliary vessel. No shots were fired in the encounter. But at least twice this year, armed patrol boats from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard have fired upon unarmed merchant vessels.
It is the threat posed by these fast-attack boats, the mainstay of the Iranian navy, that our own navy aims to address.
WNU Editor: I am sure the Iranians are working on other options right now.
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