(Click To Enlarge)How The Iran And U.S. Will Fight At Sea -- The Danger Room
The U.S. Navy's shipbuilders like to focus in on the China threat. But American ships' most likely foes could be the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, or IRGCN, and its arsenal of 200 potential-suicide boats. Last year, the IRGCN took fifteen British sailors and marines hostage. That made U.S. commanders nervous enough about the IRGCN danger that they let a prankster spark a tense stand-off in the Straits of Hormuz in January.
So what would a fight between the U.S. and Iranian navies look like? Robert Kaplan forecasts:
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My Comment: The last time the Iranian Navy faced the U.S. Navy was in the 80s, and the U.S. Navy sank a good portion of the Iranian Navy.