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Warzone/The Drive: Here's All That's Left Of Iranian Navy Ship Struck By Missile In Friendly Fire Tragedy (Updated)
The naval support ship was laying targets for a training exercise when an anti-ship missile fired from an Iranian frigate slammed into it.
Details still remain limited at this time, but what we know is that an Iranian live-fire naval training event went horribly wrong in the Gulf of Oman when one of the country's own naval vessels was struck by an anti-ship cruise missile on Sunday. The mistake has killed at least 19 Iranian sailors and wounded 15 more. A support ship named Konarak was placing targets for other ships to use for the exercise when the missile, a C-802 Noor, made a direct hit on the vessel.
Images show the vessel's entire upper structure obliterated by the inadvertent strike.
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WNU Editor: Shooting down a passenger jet in January. Blowing up your own naval warship this weekend. The Iranian military definitely does not look competent.
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What a weak anti-ship missile. That such a small ship could survive a hit from their premiere anti-ship system is to say that their system is completely inadequate to the needs of modern naval warfare.
By comparison, the US Harpoon missile in an early test without an explosive warhead still sank the first target ship it was tested on just by hitting it. That was about 50 years ago.
I did not really understand how incompetent the Iranians were in both day to day process, month to month training, and year to year acquisition until this accident.
Wow.
Just completely, institutionally, riven with incompetence for decades.
Well they may be incompetent but their missiles due work.
That is a successful hit by any measure, that ship is destroyed.
Haven't you seen the decommissioned ship taking multiple harpoon hits and stay afloat?
Almost as incompetent as mistaking a airbus for a F14.
"When you are able to attack make it seem as though aren't." Sun Tzu paraphrased. All war is deception. In other words, don't blithely assume their incompetent.
They did lose a key leader in Salami late last year. That's been almost five months, I'd assume they've fully recovered by this by now.
As I understand it, Iran has a traditional navy and attack speedboats. It seems that the speedboats are where the biggest challenge is as opposed to the traditional navy.
Accidents can and will happen in military training. As I recall, the Canadian air force had one recently. Don't blithely assume Iran "death to America" is militarily incompetent.
Fazman have you ever worked radar intercepts?
Been on a bridge?
Been in a shooting war?
A totally above board, straight forward B Poster post.
Not a thing wrong with it.
"They did lose a key leader in Salami[sic] late last year. That's been almost five months, I'd assume they've fully recovered by this by now."
I would say 12 months, but that is based on nothing (except maybe the post death purge). The technical skills and business relationships of the people in the IRGC have all adjusted for the death of Soleimani and the subsequent purge of Soleimani retainers.
Perhaps the only thing Iran is still missing and will for a long time is the prestige of Soleimani among 1/3rd to 2/3rds of the populace. That might hurt.
The post got me thinking. Maybe the friendly fire incident was not an accident. Maybe the regime is sending message. Minions are cheap to tyrants (Russia, US, China or Iran; The US is not immune to the Iron law of oligarchy. More Resistant maybe, but not immune.).
"Haven't you seen the decommissioned ship taking multiple harpoon hits and stay afloat?"
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What does afloat mean? I do not know.
If you look at the video of the linked Defense News article, you see that while the LST is still afloat, it is a definite mobility kill. That ship is scrap; its back broken.
What does it mean? I do not know.
Does it mean that power to gun mount and missile launcher is gone? Can they fire still? I would assume that a Palletized Load System could still fire assuming you could get signal to it.
Many times in a battle a tank that is a mobility kill will be abandoned. What about a modern ship with a broken keel or cannot relight the boilers (assuming that they have boilers)? It depends on the casualties, the captain and the crew, and what weapon systems they have left on the platform. Gotta wonder, if they would "fight a ship" dead in the water, when they abandon a perfectly good air craft carrier due to 1 death and 800 sick (unknown severity).
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