http://www.informationdissemination.net/2011/02/iranian-navy-exposes-us-navy-weakness.html

2/21/2011 10:34:07 AM

Is it sad that, after reading, the first thing that jumped in my head was "I hope gas prices don't go higher"

2/21/2011 11:05:00 AM

Quote :

"So, clearly the Navy has a communication problem... How can the US Navy address this? Well, if I was given 5-star rank for a day I would sail my Arleigh Burke class destroyer along side the Iranian Navy flagship for a "wave and hello" and take a photograph of the two ships side by side while underway. I realize that strategic communication is a forgotten, and perhaps lost art in the US Navy, but if you put a photograph on Navy.mil with the two warships in near proximity that illustrates the sheer size difference between the flagship of the Iranian Navy and a US Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyer, I will predict that the unofficial PASSEX is worth several thousand words to a great many reporters and Americans while also being a photograph worth about $14 million in savings to the US energy economy a day."

That's just dumb. We don't need an Iranian ship and a US ship within close proximity to each other in the Suez.

2/21/2011 11:12:22 AM

I don't have anything to comment on, I just want to compliment the OP for correctly using "effect".

[Edited on February 21, 2011 at 11:23 AM. Reason : Capitalization may be dubious, but we'll allow it]

2/21/2011 11:23:02 AM

Yawn.

That 33k tons is nothing in terms of displacement.

These things displace way more than 33k tons.

2/21/2011 5:04:34 PM

Quote :

"The supply ship Kharg is much more interesting. "

That sounds like the name of a Klingon vessel.

2/21/2011 7:11:30 PM

haha^

anyhoo, does this guy think people are worried about the Klingon Iranian ships destroying the Enterprise? I mean the Enterprise could probably take out most of the Iranian military by herself and I dont doubt most of the public understand that.

The problem is that any conflict, no matter how one sided, has the potential to cause dips in the oil supply.

2/21/2011 7:27:47 PM

Fortunately they can't fire when cloaked.

2/21/2011 8:09:59 PM