Quote (El1te @ Oct 3 2024 05:18pm)

Iran is at the mercy of the US Navy, Iran could only do that if the US lets them

Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 3 2024 01:56pm)

I'm seeing a lot of chatter of people online thinking that Iran's oil assets would be a good target for Israel. The thing people don't consider is what would stop Iran from clapping back on our friendly's oil assets in the gulf?

~30% of oil goes through the Persian gulf. You take out Iran's oil infrastructure and they can reverse uno it and threaten SA, UAE, Qatar's, Kuwaiti oil exports. So then you would have a massive oil shock leading to global shortages. No one has the spare capacity to absorb ~17M bpd that gets trafficked through the Gulf. A global oil shock is something neither the US nor Europe would be on board for. 100% not before an election in the US. That's why i actually think behind closed doors, Israel probably is handcuffed on what they can actually go after.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 3 2024 02:47pm)

Naval assets are actually very easy targets. Big, move slow, have limited ammo capacity before needing to resupply and dock. We start hitting Iran mainland with destroyers and those would be immediately be target for retaliation.

Quote (ofthevoid @ 3 Oct 2024 16:47)

Naval assets are actually very easy targets. Big, move slow, have limited ammo capacity before needing to resupply and dock. We start hitting Iran mainland with destroyers and those would be immediately be target for retaliation.

Quote (El1te @ 3 Oct 2024 17:07)

I still think Iran is too puny and weak to do anything even if they wanted to. The US has a carrier strike group around there which overpowers anything they have

Quote (SwamiVivekananda @ Oct 3 2024 09:21pm)

My friend is on a Navy vessel in the strait of Oman as we speak.

Don't know why anyone would trash the US Navy it's the greatest deterrent we as a US military have.

There's a Navy vessel capable of attacking any target on Earth in <5 minutes.

Not exactly a "sitting dud".

Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 3 2024 06:27pm)

We have the best navy in the world. That doesn’t mean it’s not vulnerable in an all out war versus non goat herders. Again in this scenario if the US was launching Tomahawks at Iran, they you would be very vulnerable, that’s just a fact.

Quote (ofthevoid @ 3 Oct 2024 20:27)

We have the best navy in the world. That doesn’t mean it’s not vulnerable in an all out war versus non goat herders. Again in this scenario if the US was launching Tomahawks at Iran, they you would be very vulnerable, that’s just a fact.