Who's the dummy?
As tensions mount between the US and Iran, Iran has launched an attack by land, air, and sea against a US aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian soldiers were shown boarding the carrier from a helicopter.
The US Navy condemned the irresponsible and reckless behaviour by Iran
as an attempt to intimidate and coerce
, while Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander Major General Hossein Salami declared What was shown today in these exercises, at the level of aerospace and naval forces, was all offensive
.
All of this wouldn't seem like pure hyperbole, if it weren't for the fact the US aircraft carrier
in question was a mock-up, not a real deal carrier:
The mock-up - which resembles a carrier the US routinely sails into the Gulf - is shown with dummy fighter jets on either side of its landing strip. Missiles are then launched from a variety of angles, including some aimed at the carrier. Another missile fired from a helicopter appears to hit the side of the fake warship.
If I understand correctly, a mock carrier is unarmed and undefended, so has no capacity to either detect or repel an attack. This might then explain why the exercise was all offensive
, and why the boarding soldiers not only had such an easy time of it, they didn't get their sorry arses whopped all the way back to Towelhead Town.
The exercises were code named Prophet Mohammed 14th
. I bet he never saw anything like that coming! And he's gotta be wondering how he can stop muslims from doing stupid things in his name. (SMH)
Rather like Christians do stupid things in Christ's name. Nobody ever said that being a prophet was going to be a walk in the park.