Hey - it's a warship!
Seriously, I know you're fucking with me, but I also know there's some community mentality that's drilled into your head that you're a warfighter. That's awesome! But keep in mind that without HVAA-P and TTPs that keep you away from many threats; you have a very short life expectancy in a high-end, peer fight (not FONOPS or an air raid into a country with already degraded IADS). Zippy, forgetting for a second that most military platforms don't have the same constraints as MPRA, made an assertion as to how a warship "should" operate. That's the root of this debate. You can't refute it. Secure from GQ, that is all.
Thank god you finally saw the humor in my post.
So, A, the "Fucko" was in jest...I reread and saw how it could be seen as angry.
B, yes, if they actually shoot at me, it's the standard "run away" profile.
C, my assertion was that in the scenario that we find ourselves (FON by Yemen) staying is part of the mission. Just like SOH passage and overflight of China's newest airstrip in the SCS. We aren't always (ever) the enforcement piece, but we are there to keep driving through because we can.
Because nothing strikes fear into the hearts of our adversaries like the four fans of freedom driven by Pickle...