Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 22:52:06 GMT -6
Well, it's Teddy and the Iranians at the moment. I haven't heard where the Kilo submarines are, but I'm sure Naval intelligence is aware of their precise location. Hopefully, at the pier...in disrepair? (couldn't get that lucky, I'm sure). Anyway..I finally found a place with the details of what the Roosevelt is carrying with her these days. It isn't quite what is used to be in a CVBG, and I see a big piece missing (or just not mentioned, I'd hope) ...but it isn't a small group.
Source: US Navy
Then on the other side, is the Iranian Navy, and they apparently have a destroyer (Different nations tend to have ..ahem..RADICALLY different definitions for that class of ship) and a bunch of support/transport ships out there to pay a port call in Yemen.
Now, I don't find the humor in Iran that most do. I see the uses of what some laugh at. Like their little bugger boats, or whatever they call the toys they can flood the strait with. Little wooden boats. Wooden hulls impervious to a sudden, dense, mine laden environment. Brilliant, actually, as the only vessels capable of safe movement, if they play gotcha with a mine field. They LOVE their mine field plans, apparently. Still...a destroyer against a Nimitz Class Carrier? Well...there is ONE thing to be concerned about. Likely, this is the only thing Iran has which give US commanders pause.
Source
Iran's "Hoot" Missile system specs and test run sheets (A.K.A. Shkval Torpedo)
It can run over 300 kph with a range just over 10,000 meters. That equates to roughly 105 seconds run time from over 6 miles away, launch to boom-boom. It also puts a very powerful kinetic weapon, aside the chemical explosive payload, against the hull of a ship at sea. Nothing about our ships today is radically different from the latter ships of the past wars and they can break, just like the old ones did.
So, it isn't something to bet money on seeing Iran deploy or employ with any degree of success .. but then, I don't buy that it is an Iranian design either. Its a technology the US couldn't make work sufficiently, and the Kursk may have sunk because of. Still....Iran has been documented with at least one test shot I recall writing about elsewhere. They do have them. The question is...HOW strongly do they feel about Iranian hegemony across the region?
We shall see, I suppose.
Commanded by Rear Adm. Andrew Lewis, TRCSG is composed of the flagship aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Carrier Strike Group 12, Carrier Air Wing 1, Destroyer Squadron 2 staff, the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) and the guided-missile destroyers USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), USS Farragut (DDG 90) and USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98).
"The mission of the carrier strike group includes all maritime missions, from maritime security operations, strike warfare, anti-submarine warfare and surface warfare," said Lewis. "These capabilities provided by the carrier, its air wing, the cruiser and destroyers within the strike group ensure the United States has the ability to support regional and coalition partners to meet operational requirements."
"The mission of the carrier strike group includes all maritime missions, from maritime security operations, strike warfare, anti-submarine warfare and surface warfare," said Lewis. "These capabilities provided by the carrier, its air wing, the cruiser and destroyers within the strike group ensure the United States has the ability to support regional and coalition partners to meet operational requirements."
Then on the other side, is the Iranian Navy, and they apparently have a destroyer (Different nations tend to have ..ahem..RADICALLY different definitions for that class of ship) and a bunch of support/transport ships out there to pay a port call in Yemen.
Now, I don't find the humor in Iran that most do. I see the uses of what some laugh at. Like their little bugger boats, or whatever they call the toys they can flood the strait with. Little wooden boats. Wooden hulls impervious to a sudden, dense, mine laden environment. Brilliant, actually, as the only vessels capable of safe movement, if they play gotcha with a mine field. They LOVE their mine field plans, apparently. Still...a destroyer against a Nimitz Class Carrier? Well...there is ONE thing to be concerned about. Likely, this is the only thing Iran has which give US commanders pause.
In April 2006, Iran successfully test-fired a new high-speed torpedo called Hoot. It was test-fired again last July, along with various other missiles.
“The torpedo is capable of destroying the largest warships and any other vessel on the surface or beneath the water, and split it into two parts,” according to an Iranian Naval Forces official.
Technical specifications (pdf) for components of the Hoot torpedo are presented in an Iranian document (in Farsi) that was provided to Secrecy News. The document appears to have been produced by a subunit of Iran’s Aerospace Industries Organization, according to a colleague who reviewed it.
“The torpedo is capable of destroying the largest warships and any other vessel on the surface or beneath the water, and split it into two parts,” according to an Iranian Naval Forces official.
Technical specifications (pdf) for components of the Hoot torpedo are presented in an Iranian document (in Farsi) that was provided to Secrecy News. The document appears to have been produced by a subunit of Iran’s Aerospace Industries Organization, according to a colleague who reviewed it.
Iran's "Hoot" Missile system specs and test run sheets (A.K.A. Shkval Torpedo)
It can run over 300 kph with a range just over 10,000 meters. That equates to roughly 105 seconds run time from over 6 miles away, launch to boom-boom. It also puts a very powerful kinetic weapon, aside the chemical explosive payload, against the hull of a ship at sea. Nothing about our ships today is radically different from the latter ships of the past wars and they can break, just like the old ones did.
So, it isn't something to bet money on seeing Iran deploy or employ with any degree of success .. but then, I don't buy that it is an Iranian design either. Its a technology the US couldn't make work sufficiently, and the Kursk may have sunk because of. Still....Iran has been documented with at least one test shot I recall writing about elsewhere. They do have them. The question is...HOW strongly do they feel about Iranian hegemony across the region?
We shall see, I suppose.