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Sebastien Roblin, National Interest: Could Iran's Missiles Do the Unthinkable: Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier?
The next threat the navy has to worry about?
On the morning of January 20, 2019, a six-by-six Mercedes-Benz truck in al-Kiswah, Syria crewed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps began elevating a missile mounted on its back into firing position. Once the nearly nine-meter long missile attained a roughly seventy-degree angle, it solid-fuel rocket blasted it on an arcing trajectory towards Mount Hermon, twenty-miles to the west on the Israeli-controlled portion of the Golan Height.
Skiers vacationing at the ski-resort there could see the contrails of the Fateh-110 (“Conqueror”) missile streaking towards them at three times the speed of sound (video here.)
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WNU Editor: If it floats, it can be sunk. But it will be very hard to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier.
No... The US's coalition is struggling to hit fixed position in Syria, you think Iran can hit a moving target at sea with not just a whole task force to protect but 80+ aircraft that would be all to willing to "take a hit for the team".
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason everyone everywhere is still building carriers.
I can't remember where I read it, it was long before the internet though, apparently Khrushchev once claimed that Russia could shoot down a fly. Kennedy responded with, 'we can shoot down a fly too, the question is though, which fly do you shoot down?'
ReplyDeletePeople keep talking about trying to sink US aircraft carriers. It's much easier and just as effective, if you can do enough damage to prevent it from launching and recovering aircraft. At that point, the carrier becomes useless.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Iran goes, though, I would guess that they don't have the target tracking and acquisition capability that the Chinese likely have, so they probably have less ability to actually hit a carrier.