Iran Navy Harasses US Warships

[Clinton Huxley]

There's only one way to find out....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It would have to hit the island to do any real damage, and one wouldn't put the ship out of operation at all unless it got an amazingly lucky hit.

[Atheist-Lite]

The Iranians are pretty good with their engineering and will have schematics of the nimitz class so I'd assume they'd be after the magazine or the nuclear engineroom? These are both gonna be low but the engine room is gonna be heavy because of the need for shielding, it'll be lower. What kind of reactor do nimitz have? Water cooled?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Iranians are pretty good with their engineering and will have schematics of the nimitz class so I'd assume they'd be after the magazine or the nuclear engineroom? These are both gonna be low but the engine room is gonna be heavy because of the need for shielding, it'll be lower. What kind of reactor do nimitz have? Water cooled?

Sorry, Crump, but there are a few problems there. First, unless it's a TV-guided bomb it's just going to go for the center of mass. Second, the reactors are buried deep within the ship, you'd need 3-4 hitting the right spot in succession to even get past the secondary bulkheads.

[Svartalf]

Any access vents for the cooling ducts one could send a proton torpedo through?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Any access vents for the cooling ducts one could send a proton torpedo through?

The reactor chamber is sealed. The heat exchangers and air conditioners cool the compartment(s).

[Atheist-Lite]

Anyone signing up to one of them is signing up to a metal coffin. Methinks someone does protest too much?

http://www.defensereview.com/us-aircraf ... time-bomb/

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one, and almost all of them stink.

[Ian]

[Svartalf]

no fair Ian, surely there is stuff you can tell that is not classified.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Ian]

I'll get into it later. I'm leaving work soon and don't have time to post in detail.

[Atheist-Lite]

About that time hey chaps? This'll sort the youth unemployment prob out?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16701013

Iran escalation 'could see UK forces sent to Gulf'

An escalation of a dispute with Iran could see Britain sending military reinforcements to the Gulf, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has said.

Sending HMS Argyll as part of an international warship flotilla through the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday was a "clear signal" to Tehran, he said.

Iran has threatened to close the strait in retaliation for sanctions against its oil exports.

In total, 35% of the world's tanker-borne oil passes through the strait.

Asked if more resources could be sent to the region, Mr Hammond said: "The UK has a contingent capability to reinforce that presence should at any time it be considered necessary to do so."

He was speaking at a London press conference following the annual round of talks between UK and Australian foreign and defence ministers.

The European Union agreed sanctions on Monday to ban all new oil contracts with Iran and freeze the assets of Iran's central bank in the EU. Iran said the embargo is "unfair" and "doomed to fail".

The EU currently buys about 20% of Iran's oil exports.

Foreign Secretary William Hague said the sanctions represented "a significant increase in peaceful and legitimate pressure on the Iranian government to return to negotiations over its nuclear programme.

"Until it does so the pressure will only increase."

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[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Send a gunboat!"

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[HomerJay]

The British are coming!