Iran began its latest military exercise in the Strait of Hormuz. Dubbed Prophet Muhammad 14th, the reports from earlier this week of Iran putting a dummy aircraft carrier into the Strait to target proved true, with an Iranian helicopter firing a missile at it.
The dummy aircraft carrier, complete with dummy planes, is made up to look like a US Nimitz class carrier, and attacking such a vessel is likely done for propaganda’s sake, and in recognition that US carriers are often looming off Iran’s coast.
US Navy officials angrily declared it “irresponsible” for Iran to attack the replica aircraft carrier, even though the carrier exists seemingly just to be a dummy target for a live-fire exercise. They did say it hasn’t disrupted any Pentagon operations.
Despite its objection, the US has long favored the use of targeting dummies for its own live-fire exercise, and has often used ships or mock ships to target. In 1946, the US went so far as to drop atomic bombs on a fleet of obsolete warships, testing how much damage the atomic weapons would have on ships.
They are scared to Death of fighting it out with because they know they will lose their AC Carriers
The US gets furious when anyone dares to show that their “mighty” aircraft carrier are nothing but sitting ducks.
I was also watching the US acolytes that have been rabbiting about the US carriers in the South China sea, do they not realize that three carriers would just become three sunken carriers if a real war broke out between China and the US. Be clear, the likely hood would be if a real shooting war broke out that China would go Nuclear and blow the carriers out of the water. Twenty minutes or less, and the carriers and their task forces would be sunk! The big carriers carry nuclear weapons, the greatest effective way to stop the use of those Nuclear weapon is complete and utter destruction of all means of delivery. If there is a Hot War it would be an absolute necessity to stop the ability of those Nuclear weapons from being used, hence sink the Ships, and the most definite way of sinking a carrier task force is with a Nuclear strike. That is the MAD doctrine both the pros and cons, the threat of the nuclear strike means that one has to get in first to stop them from striking you! Of course the real MAD doctrine is that one does not attack because of the Mutually Assured destruction, sadly we are seeing those in the US thinking that they could actually win such a war, at least in the Chinese case. I suspect though an attack on Iran itself would also mean the US would lose major assets, Bahrain would be flattened, along with what ever was in the US base.
Carriers sunk, satellites blown out of orbit (causing debris that will prevent new ones for scores of years), military bases hit, and finally all or most major cities in the belligerents (and probably non-belligerents, just for good measure) destroyed by SLBMs and ICBMs.
We used a drone to murder one of their Generals and we are moaning about a routine and necessary military exercise. Talk about lack of self-awareness.
Nice of them to take time out from practicing decapitation strikes and amphibious landings to threaten the DPRK..
This is angrily irresponsible but intercepting Iran passenger jetliner is not….!!!
The headline on the article just before this one, could be applied equally to this one.
Iranian navy carries out live fire exercises in their own territorial waters and US gets hjacked off. China does the same – US gets hacked off.
The US is a narcissistic attack dog, who just wants to be the centre of attention all the time.