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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 3/04
« Last post by SVPete on March 04, 2026, 12:23:26 PM »U.S. Sub Sinks Iranian Warship, First Such Hit Since WWII
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/03/04/us-sub-sinks-iranian-warship-n4950226
Looks like the Mark 48 torpedo is more reliable than the WW2-vintage Mark 14 ... not that the Mark 14 was a high standard of excellence.
Because of the strategy around which the Iranian navy was designed - commerce raiding and piracy with small ships, patrol boats, and mini-submarines - it needs to be literally reduced to rowboats and dhows, and facilities capable of building speedboats flattened.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/03/04/us-sub-sinks-iranian-warship-n4950226
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A United States submarine successfully sank an Iranian regime warship, according to a Wednesday morning update from the secretary of war.
The American submarine using a torpedo to sink an Iranian ship is particularly historic because, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, this is the first such sinking of a ship since World War II. And just as the USA demanded unconditional surrender during World War II, Hegseth emphasized, now the U.S. is in it to win it again.
The U.S.-Israeli joint Operation Epic Fury continues to claim prizes, including a warship named for the terrorist Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leader (Qasem Soleimani) whom Donald Trump eliminated during his first term and on behalf of whom the likewise assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei repeatedly vowed to assassinate President Donald Trump.
“The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf,” Hegseth confidently announced. “[It’s] combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated, pick your adjective. In fact, last night, we sunk their prize ship, the ‘Soleimani’.”
Looks like the Mark 48 torpedo is more reliable than the WW2-vintage Mark 14 ... not that the Mark 14 was a high standard of excellence.
Because of the strategy around which the Iranian navy was designed - commerce raiding and piracy with small ships, patrol boats, and mini-submarines - it needs to be literally reduced to rowboats and dhows, and facilities capable of building speedboats flattened.
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In what perpendicular universe could this be true?
In DUmp land, all the blacks left the South to escape all the racist rednecks and klansmen.