[ April 25, 2024 ]
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USS Thunderbolt fires warning shots at Iranian vessel
Story continues below advertisementUS Navy ship fires warning shots at Iranian ship in Persian Gulf
A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots at an Iranian ship in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, U.S. defense officials confirmed to Fox News.
The U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship fired warning shots from its .50-caliber machine gun at an Iranian patrol boat when it came within 150 yards of the ship in the Persian Gulf, according to two U.S. defense officials.
The Iranian ship ignored repeated radio calls from the USS Thunderbolt, which also launched flares to warn the fast approaching Iranian ship, officials said.
The incident happened Tuesday as a formation of U.S. Navy warships was doing an exercise in the Northern Persian Gulf.
It’s the first time since January a U.S. Navy warship has fired warning shots at an Iranian vessel which approached too close.
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43 Comments
6 years ago
Sorry boys, we’re all out of ransom money and are ready to blow yerselves to paradise. Tell yer friends.
6 years ago
Would have taken some Rangers and paratroopers. Instead, the leaders sat and watched that cancer grow. Now we’re talking radioactive solutions.
6 years ago
Reply to
Reiver
Atom and Evil
Atom and Evil
If you don’t break up that romance soon
We’ll all fall down and go boom, boom, (boom), boom!
We’re sitting on the edge of doom (doom) (doom) (doom) doom!
6 years ago
Reply to
Meoldfart Fartme
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6 years ago
Old Chinese proverb :
When all your enemies are dead – who is left to complain ?
6 years ago
One warning shot between the eyes will be sufficient.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Uhh, that might be an over-simplification, Maam.
Nuclear Physics is not all that simple. Most of the post here are treading toward a scorched earth solution… at least I am! Send them and the North Koreans a message, “Old Soldiers Never Die” and some legendary ones may never “fade away”! The words in quotation marks were taken from Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s farewell speech. He wanted to obliterate the North Koreans, back in the 1950’s, when I was still a child. He was relieved of his Command and sent into retirement by Pres. Harry Truman (a Democrap, but a lot like our POTUS, today! A firebrand, for sure. You don’t cross the guy, that nuked Japan and ended WWII. He meant exactly what he said and he was true to his wife, as far as anyone knows! That says a lot about any man in a position of honor, loyalty & respect!
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
I trust your point is, that our current POTUS, is not a vet? I am a veteran and can guarantee you, vets are a cross section of the population and none have a lock on virtue.
Many are clueless to history and do not know, that Gen.MacArthur commanded the lower ranking Geo. Patton to ride mounted cavalry, down on and disperse a D.C. encampment of WWI veterans, many camped with their families and many with disabilities, that were protesting for their promised service bonuses, during the Great Depression.
My point is, Military officers are well schooled in leadership and how to enforce discipline, but then again so are corporate executives and both are preferred to career politicians.
6 years ago
Grilled pork sausage on the fantail?
6 years ago
And as a bonus, the US did NOT surrender to the Iranians, unlike a few years ago.
6 years ago
Can hardly believe their testing a war ship. Are they really that ignorant.
6 years ago
Reply to
John Gagne
they know we do not defend ourselves and allow boarding and seizing of US ships as per obola agreement
Too bad obola is gone, boys
6 years ago
Reply to
John Gagne
They know we will show restraint. They’re testing how much restraint we will show. They’re testing how close they can get, and estimating whether they can close that distance for a ramming attack before being sunk. 150 yards is close.
6 years ago
Reply to
Manual Paleologos
150 yards is carbine range! Maybe it’s time to drop leaflets, like we did on Japan and tell the civilians to get out of Tehran, before we level it. That just might get their attention. No land forces, or bombers, just sub & surface ship cruise missiles. Level the cockroach infected city and call it Pest Control!
6 years ago
Reply to
Fredrick Rehders
I think a burst of .50 cal in the water off the bow will get the message across, loud and clear.
6 years ago
Reply to
Manual Paleologos
Actually Manual… a burst of .50 cal. IN THE BOW will get the message across, louder & clearer! I prefer cannon, say at least 105s, but 155s are bigger and better! I am not opposed to torpedoes or even Cruise Missiles, though I would like to see our guys sink their piss ant boats and still be able to rescue and take prisoners. (a) we need a reason to make use of a perfectly good facility, affectionately known as “Gitmo”.
(b) Perhaps we could barter them back to Iran, before they start declaring LGBT rights… just a matter of time for spoiled perverts, you know!
6 years ago
Islam always loses.
6 years ago
Under Obummer’s administration, they would call a national security council meeting. Debated it for a few weeks. Passed it off to congress. Played it out on CNN, gone back for a few more meetings and then, decided they weren’t going to fire back. Under Trump, not so much. If Iran continues this type of behavior, which they probably will, they will learn in short order there is a new sheriff in town. And he will fire back.
6 years ago
We’ve been far too lenient on the Iranians for far too long. They disregard warning shots and view them as the product of a nation that has so far been handicapped at taking action.
6 years ago
This should play out nicely for the US Navy. More practice for them.
6 years ago
Yes we can. Both navy’s are in international waters. Go read the US Navy’s mission for protecting merchant sea lanes.
6 years ago
Gee.Must be a new President
6 years ago
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6 years ago
Capture the crew like they did to the US crew last year. Hold them for prisoner swap for the Americans the Iranians hold. Alternately, blow them out of the water. They won’t do it a second time.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dennis Will
Let’s not leave out, Commander Bucher surrendering the USS Pueblo, with highly sensitive equipment on board, to a couple of North Korean patrol boats, when his duty was to scuttle his ship, rather than give it up, in 1968, during the failed presidency of Demonrat LBJ !
6 years ago
What? No USS Cole (DDG-67) October 12, 2000, where the US let’s the enemy blow up the American ship?
What? No surrender like on January 12, 2016, two United States Navy riverine command boats cruising from Kuwait to Bahrain with a combined crew of nine men and one woman on board strayed into Iranian territorial waters and patrol craft of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy seized the craft and detained the crew at a military base on Farsi Island?
Maybe the US Navy is out of the surrender and capitulation business.
The US Navy needs to be off the coast of Libya and shooting at the troop carrier ships of the Islamic Invasion Army of Europe. There are plenty of targets for the US Navy to shoot at in the Mediterranean to stop the Islamic Invasion Army of Europe.
6 years ago
Fire shots across her bow. If she persists in closing the distance, sink her. That’s Admiralty law.
6 years ago
Too late for that! What do we do now?
6 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
Trump said he can’t get the 150 billion back and the nuclear treaty means nothing. What sanctions and what country will do it? We don’t give them anything, but Obama did.
6 years ago
TIME TO MAKE IRAN A PARKING LOT
6 years ago
So….I suppose the next step in this outrageous scenario is to allow an armed Iranian boarding party to inspect our ships, but only after arresting the captains and crew? Don’t laugh! After all, we don’t want to make the Russians, the Chinese and the Muslims mad at us. If I were Secretary of the Navy, and with the approval of the President via a completely rewritten foreign policy on handling threats of war, the Iranian ship would be now resting quietly on the bottom of the Persian Gulf. North Korea, China and Iran (among others, including the feckless UN) still consider the U.S. to be the slobbering, whimpering fat boy in the schoolyard, ripe for pickins by the first pint-sized bully who decides to make a name for himself in the ‘hood.
I thought Trump would have remembered the U.S.S. Cole incident and the Farsi Island fiasco by issuing a standing Executive Order to eliminate any further similar threats to our naval vessels. We all knew Obama was too weak to stand up to such muscle-flexing by our enemies, and I am floored that his legacy of weakness and apology apparently still persists.
But what do I know? I’m only an 80-year-old who still remembers WWII—even as a child— and that our country at that time in our history in no way mirrors the lack of leadership our Washington, D.C. politicians have assumed in recent decades.
6 years ago
Reply to
Forrest Grump
The details of this incident don’t rest on Trump, but on the skipper of the Thunderbolt. He ordered the warning shots to be fired. I don’t like the idea of the Iranian vessel being allowed within 150 yards, but I haven’t seen any of the details.
6 years ago
So stop with the warning shots! Blow them out of the water. Feed the fishes, at least the ragheads would serve a purpose.
6 years ago
Yup! Might, really can be Right, under certain circumstances! The real problem is, it wouldn’t send a large enough message to change their errant behavior. Why waste ammo? Just send the SOB to the bottom, rescue any survivors and hold them in Gitmo, until Iran gave back all of that cash Obammy sent them, on pallets, in an unmarked plane, the middle of the night! Taking severe retaliatory action and an on-going policy utilizing overwhelming Might and nothing short of it, will ever get their attention!
6 years ago
Sink the SOB’s and send a message to Iran mullahs that America won’t take their BS any more.
6 years ago
Its armament includes two Mk38 chain guns, two Mk19 automatic grenade launchers, and two .50 caliber (12.7m) machine guns. – how about a wee burp from the two chain guns –
6 years ago
Reply to
Meoldfart Fartme
Pretty substantial fire power, right there..two, Mk38- 25mm, chain guns (twice the size of a .50 caliber) @ 200 rnds per minute, over 9 feet long and weighing 250 pounds ea. That would put up a noteworthy resistance to most opponents on the sea… not all, but most!
