Iran says warships headed close to US borders

[FDRfan1985]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian warships dispatched to the Atlantic Ocean will travel close to U.S. maritime borders for the first time, a senior Iranian naval commander said Saturday.

The commander of Iran's Northern Navy Fleet, Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad, said the vessels have already entered the Atlantic Ocean via waters near South Africa, the official IRNA news agency reported.

The fleet, consisting of a destroyer and a helicopter-carrying supply ship, began its voyage last month from the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. The ships, carrying some 30 navy academy cadets for training along with their regular crews, are on a three-month mission.

The voyage comes amid an ongoing push by Iran to demonstrate its ability to project power across the Middle East and beyond.

IRNA quoted Haddad as saying the fleet is approaching U.S. maritime borders for the first time. The Islamic Republic considers the move as a response to U.S. naval deployments near its own coastlines. The U.S. Navy's 5th fleet is based in Bahrain, just across the Persian Gulf.

Iran BSing or they really that stupid?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

As long as they stay beyond the 12-mile limit, there ain't a lot we can do about it without being hypocrites, so militarily they ain't being stupid.  Politically ...

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

We do this all the time to other countries.

[AkSaber]

We do this all the time to other countries.

With forces a lot more menacing than a destroyer and supply ship.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

At least their destroyers are destroyer-sized instead of the cruiser-sized behemoths we call destroyers. Indeed, the new Zumwalt-class destroyers are so large that they would be classified as battleships under the interwar Washington and London Naval Treaties.

[CatoMinor]

Indeed, the new Zumwalt-class destroyers are so large that they would be classified as battleships under the interwar Washington and London Naval Treaties.

They almost look like an old school sub lol.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

OMG THERE GONNA INVADE US!?!?

[Silent Hunter]

At least their destroyers are destroyer-sized instead of the cruiser-sized behemoths we call destroyers. Indeed, the new Zumwalt-class destroyers are so large that they would be classified as battleships under the interwar Washington and London Naval Treaties.

Er... the Iranian press may call it a destroyer, but most classifiers would deem them light frigates.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

At least their destroyers are destroyer-sized instead of the cruiser-sized behemoths we call destroyers. Indeed, the new Zumwalt-class destroyers are so large that they would be classified as battleships under the interwar Washington and London Naval Treaties.

Er... the Iranian press may call it a destroyer, but most classifiers would deem them light frigates.

That's because destroyers have gotten so big, we needed to reuse the word frigate to describe ships that were once of the size called destroyers.

[bullmoose88]

At least their destroyers are destroyer-sized instead of the cruiser-sized behemoths we call destroyers. Indeed, the new Zumwalt-class destroyers are so large that they would be classified as battleships under the interwar Washington and London Naval Treaties.

Er... the Iranian press may call it a destroyer, but most classifiers would deem them light frigates.

That's because destroyers have gotten so big, we needed to reuse the word frigate to describe ships that were once of the size called destroyers.

Lord only knows if we had gone through with the CGX, how big that really would have ended up. 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

At least their destroyers are destroyer-sized instead of the cruiser-sized behemoths we call destroyers. Indeed, the new Zumwalt-class destroyers are so large that they would be classified as battleships under the interwar Washington and London Naval Treaties.

Er... the Iranian press may call it a destroyer, but most classifiers would deem them light frigates.

That's because destroyers have gotten so big, we needed to reuse the word frigate to describe ships that were once of the size called destroyers.

Lord only knows if we had gone through with the CGX, how big that really would have ended up. 

The last CG(X) design before the project was cancelled was 23,000 tons, in between the Des Moines- and Alaska-class cruisers of WWII in size.

[Indy Texas]

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