Today, these boats both not only had radar, but multiple GPS devices, including chart plotters that place your boat's icon right on the chart. The claim by Iran that the USN boats "strayed into Iranian waters" is complete bull$#it.
For an open-water transit between nations, the course is studied and planned in advance by the leaders of the Riverine Squadron, with specific attention given to staying wide and clear of any hostile nation's claimed territorial waters. The boats are given a complete mechanical check before departure, and they have sufficient fuel to accomplish their mission plus extra. If, for some unexplainable and rare circumstance one boat broke down, the other would tow it, that's why two boats go on these trips and not one! It's called "self-rescue" and it's SOP.
This entire situation is in my area of expertise. I can state with complete confidence that both Iran and our own State Department are lying. The boats did not enter Iranian waters. They were overtaken in international waters by Iranian patrol boats that were so superior in both speed and firepower that it became a "hands up!" situation, with automatic cannons in the 40mm to 76mm range pointed at them point-blank. Surrender, hands up, or be blown out of the water. I assume that the Iranians had an English speaker on a loudspeaker to make the demand. This takedown was no accident or coincidence, it was a planned slap across America's face.
Just watch. The released sailors will be ordered not to say a word about the incident, and the Iranians will have taken every GPS device, chart-plotter etc off the boats, so that we will not be able to prove where our boats were taken.
The "strayed into Iranian waters" story being put out by Iran and our groveling and appeasing State Dept. is utter and complete BS from one end to the other." - Matt Bracken
For an open-water transit between nations, the course is studied and planned in advance by the leaders of the Riverine Squadron, with specific attention given to staying wide and clear of any hostile nation's claimed territorial waters. The boats are given a complete mechanical check before departure, and they have sufficient fuel to accomplish their mission plus extra. If, for some unexplainable and rare circumstance one boat broke down, the other would tow it, that's why two boats go on these trips and not one! It's called "self-rescue" and it's SOP.
This entire situation is in my area of expertise. I can state with complete confidence that both Iran and our own State Department are lying. The boats did not enter Iranian waters. They were overtaken in international waters by Iranian patrol boats that were so superior in both speed and firepower that it became a "hands up!" situation, with automatic cannons in the 40mm to 76mm range pointed at them point-blank. Surrender, hands up, or be blown out of the water. I assume that the Iranians had an English speaker on a loudspeaker to make the demand. This takedown was no accident or coincidence, it was a planned slap across America's face.
Just watch. The released sailors will be ordered not to say a word about the incident, and the Iranians will have taken every GPS device, chart-plotter etc off the boats, so that we will not be able to prove where our boats were taken.
The "strayed into Iranian waters" story being put out by Iran and our groveling and appeasing State Dept. is utter and complete BS from one end to the other." - Matt Bracken
I believe they wanted to get "caught".
ReplyDeleteIt was a false flag. That is why it doesn't make any sense.
Real sailors if they were in the right would have fought to the death to defend their honor. The American Naval traditions laid out by the likes of John Paul Jones and Stephen Decatur are dead.
ReplyDelete654 yes they would that's what they're trained to do there also trained to follow their commanders they were probably told to stand down because that's what are pussyfooting President does
ReplyDeleteYes our sailors should have opened fire on them and started another war, that makes much better sense! Wth is wrong with people, couldn't have been wrong on our part. America is far to superior to make mistakes!
ReplyDelete7:53 please notice I said "if they were in the right".
ReplyDeleteProving that they knew exactly where they were, on a charted course, and with an emergency plan doesn't prove that they were not in Iranian waters.
ReplyDeleteThey knew that Obama wanted the Iran deal to go through and wouldn't want a pie in his face, but they gained nothing by taking troops for a few hours. In addition the news of their capture would have to go up a chain of command, and I don't think the US gov or the Iranians would have the confidence to try to pull off what in the end was a pretty meaningless and forgettable event.
I don't think Iran would commit suicide by attacking the United States but there are other foriegn powers manipulating politics and public opinion for their own means. That is complete chaos in the Middle East.