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Two oil tankers hit in Gulf of Oman
- Thread starter nittany03
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If/when will KSA strike at Iran directly, as opposed to indirectly.
How do you envision something like that going down?
Iran isn't striking them directly so why should Saudi Arabia strike Iran?
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I was serious, it looks better than most of what I've seen on post-flight DVR footage. I did however, neglect to look at the range readout.
ABMD
Bullets don't fly without Supply
This L.A. Times article https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-us-iran-tanker-war-lessons-costs-20190618-story.html has the following quote:
"The American fleet no longer has the number of large frigates that worked the Persian Gulf in the 1980s, often serving as ad hoc minesweepers thanks to their girth and reinforced hulls, Brennan said."
Would anyone care to tell me which class of frigates had a "reinforced" hull? I can assure you the Know class FF's of that era had nearly tissue paper thin hulls!
"The American fleet no longer has the number of large frigates that worked the Persian Gulf in the 1980s, often serving as ad hoc minesweepers thanks to their girth and reinforced hulls, Brennan said."
Would anyone care to tell me which class of frigates had a "reinforced" hull? I can assure you the Know class FF's of that era had nearly tissue paper thin hulls!
I wonder if they misquoted him or if he really said that (retired JAG CAPT, not a line officer but still oughta know the difference).
The funny part is the LA Times website gave me one of those "our website uses cookies" guilt popups. I guess dipshit reporting doesn't come for free!!
The funny part is the LA Times website gave me one of those "our website uses cookies" guilt popups. I guess dipshit reporting doesn't come for free!!
No joke, last frigate I deployed on they poked a hole in their own hull taking a sounding on a fuel tank. We were technically sinking for a week.
You know what they call that on a frigate? A "Tuesday."
I was on a DD that had a fire in one of the berthing compartments, care of a sloppy old repair job on a GTG bleed air pipe. I was on a gator that had a fuel leak in the main engine room so bad that the fuel was ankle-deep in some places... oh and we went DIY from the emergency shutdown for that because the other plant was already shutdown when it happened. As a dumb aviator it's hard to judge just how severe the leak was, but the white-haired CHENG did use the phrase "worst fuel leak he had ever seen."
Not trying to one-up your sea stories though, least of all the ones from the frigate navy. Dev's comment about "Tuesday" is in line with all the other stories I've heard. Good times!!
Well this one time, on the Hepburn....
Yeah, but did you get your own show out of it? Or at least a Youtube channel?
Ducking autocorrect!! It changed what I typed! I sweater!