Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1424484)

:damn: Ya gutter minded lot! :O:

Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1424484)

:damn: Ya gutter minded lot! :O:

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin (Post 1424515)

Well, we are talking about the biggest gutter of them all :p2:

Originally Posted by Skybird (Post 1424342)

It seems to be not so typical that the whole armada then would pass through the Suez in one rush. The article says that.

I personally, if time is no critical factor, would even refuse to pass high value assets like carriers and cruisers through a narrow waterstreet at all, even at peacetimes. If mtime allows, let them sail around Africa - much reduced vulnerability that way. But this only on a sidenote.

TLAM,
did you miss my joke? :) Your reply was so terribly fact-oriented. :D

Originally Posted by SteamWake (Post 1424154)

Source?

Originally Posted by The Nation circa 2006

As reports circulate of a sharp debate within the White House over possible US military action against Iran and its nuclear enrichment facilities, <i>The Nation</i> has learned that the Bush Administration and the Pentagon have moved up the deployment of a major &quot;strike group&quot; of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast.

This information follows a report in the current issue of Time magazine, both online and in print, that a group of ships capable of mining harbors has received orders to be ready to sail for the Persian Gulf by October 1.

Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1424358)

Was there an intentional pun there? :hmmm:

Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1424399)

:hmmm: ?

Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1424709)

I was thinking more in terms of "mummies"....as in desert countries etc.

Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1424709)

I was thinking more in terms of "mummies"....as in desert countries...

Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1424711)

Aaah,I think I missed it because I focused on the longship reference. Of course, for the ultimate in deterrence, you could send a fleet of biremes and triremes through...but the Egyptians would probably crap themselves. :hmmm:

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin (Post 1424757)

Hey that rhymed :O:

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1424807)

Looks a bit of a show.

Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1424834)

I think it's more than simply a coincedence....America will not allow Israel to be bullied into submission for simply one of a multitude of reasons...which Middle Eastern ally would be next?

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1424862)

Exactly Jim...a show of support.....as if to say, we are here and we are watching.....

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1424862)

Exactly Jim...a show of support.....as if to say, we are here and we are watching.....