Iran's Hormuz fleet includes more than 1,000 heavily armed speedboats

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[Keysersoze]

A CBG would make short work of those guys......There are so many layers it would make make mincemeat of the boats before they even got close.

 

[Bull]

What 1000 boats with cruise missiles....if they have 2 per boat. Thats 2000 cruise missile, i wonder what rate of productionthey have for Cms?

 

[Cheetah786]

What 1000 boats with cruise missiles....if they have 2 per boat. Thats 2000 cruise missile, i wonder what rate of productionthey have for Cms?

I don't think Iranians have cruise missiles

 

[Chrome9]

they have kebabs on them

I guess you really dislike Iranians..

 

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[Ababeel]

i love iranians i hate ahmadinnerjacket and his nazis

So whoare you. Neocon, Fascist, Zionist?

 

[Always Neutral]

They have a long list of cruise missiles... just look up in wikipedia.

But cruise missiles on speed boats ? It would be impossible given the need of the launcher size, blast shield, high speed engines, radars and guidance equipment etc. Unless the cruise missile are shoulder launched and I have never heard of such a cruise missile. It would be simpler for the Iranians to use land based cruise missiles. Also any speed boat would be mince meat for the F 16, F 18,the intruder air crafts and not to mention the 6 barrel Phalanx system etc.

Regards

 

[Always Neutral]

Iran's Hormuz fleet includes more than 1,000 heavily armed speedboats
Friday, June 22, 2007

WASHINGTON — Iran has expanded its naval presence in the Straits of Hormuz, the passage for an estimated 40 percent of global crude oil shipments.

Space shuttle photo of the Straits of Hormuz [ZOOM]. NASA-Johnson Space Center ​

The U.S. Navy has determined that Iran has amassed a fleet of fast patrol boats in the 43-kilometer straits. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responsible for strategic programs, leads the effort.

At this point, officials said, IRGC has deployed more than 1,000 FPBs in and around the straits. The vessels, armed with cruise missiles, mines, torpedoes and rocket-propelled grenades, are up to 23 meters in long and can reach a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

"This marks the implementation of Iran's swarm program, where dozens of armed speed boats attack much larger naval vessels from all sides," an official said.
In 2005, IRGC developed its swarm doctrine following Teheran's assessment that the United States was considering an air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Officials said the swarm doctrine was designed to exploit the slow pace of U.S. aircraft carriers and destroyers in the shallow waters of the Gulf.

"Iran still states that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps will employ swarming tactics in a conflict,'' U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence spokesman Robert Althage said.

IRGC swarming tactics envision a group of more than 100 speedboats attacking a target, such as a Western naval vessel or a commercial oil tanker. They said 20 or more speedboats would strike from each direction, making defense extremely difficult.

The Navy, with at least two carrier groups in the Gulf, has been developing counter-measures to an Iranian swarm attack. These include using minesweepers, unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor Iranian speedboats and the deployment of weapons that could blast Iranian speedboats at standoff range. Such exercises have been conducted over the past few months.

"We have devised various tactics and other ways of coping," U.S. commander Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff said. "You just don't get 1,000 or 500 or even 20 of anything under way and tightly orchestrated over a large body of water to create a specific effect at a specific time and specific place. They have their own challenges.''


World Tribune

It would be like the charge of the Light Brigade and with the same disastrous consequences ie will look very brave and noble but will lead to a massacre of the iranians.

Regards

 

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[Pksecurity]

Will the United States shoot itself in the foot through its sanctions against Iran? This question is not difficult to answer and immediate answer is in affirmative. The biggest lesson of history is that nations don’t learn any lesson. The cost of sanctions to the U.S. economy of expensive oil, was in the neighborhood of half a trillion dollars, caused by decades of sanctions on investment in Iran, Iraq, and Libya. The cost of the proposed sanctions is never mentioned. But the sanctions and the escalating costs of transportation of oil due to Hormuz blockade by Iran would draw the US into another misadventure. This could destabilize the region further into breeding grounds for US-hatred, extremism and terrorism. The Velayat in the Strait of Hormuz is no ordinary war-games and must be taken seriously. Read more at: National Security: The Velayat in the Strait of Hormuz is no ordinary war-games….

 

[IranZamin]

Since 2007 we added another 2000 armed speedboats (including unguided and guided rocket launchers) to our fleet

 

[Gold1010]

whats with the deleted pics?

 

[RedBeard]

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[Alpery]

-why Iran uses booats instead of coastal missiles?
-what is the alternate ways of iran...own exporting oil?