"Juergen Nieveler" wrote in message
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"Lord Vain" wrote:

The Iranians are claiming that the underwater rocket has a range of
10km, but there's not a chance in hell that an Iranian sub or ship
will get within 10km's of a U.S. aircraft carrier.

Look at a map of the Straits - there are parts where it's quite narrow,
about 30km if you don't count the narrow parts where a carrier can't go.

Add to that the territorial waters of Iran, and the straits become very
narrow indeed...

I can assure you that even Iranian territorial waters are eyed with a fine
tooth comb when U.S. ships travel those waters. Anything considered
remotedly dangerous to U.S. ships under these circumstances would be a dead
duck in the water before it knew what hit it.

So basically the entire weapon is fundamentally flawed.

Unless the Iranians can read charts and know what a chokepoint is...

Choke points, during times of armed conflict, have a way of disolving
themselves when confronted with any U.S. armada that, when under combat
operations, and all by itself, is one of the most powerful military forces
on ther planet.

It's only usefull against oil tankers and cruise ships but those could
just as easily be taken out with normal torpedoes or even mines.

Maybe they put the torpedo into a mine similar to CAPTOR (but command
activated from the beach - no need fussing around with acoustical
sensors)... the technology isn't that complicated when you thing about
it.

If the Strait of Hormuz, even at it's narrowest, is only 30 km wide, as you
say, then our ships would have to be within 10 km of Iran's coast in order
for the weapon to have any chance at all. and our Navy simply doesn't have
to get that close. In fact, they don't even have to enter to Gulf at all
to carry out their mission.

George