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Originally Posted by Max2147

In a conventional conflict, yes. But the Iranians know a lot about fighting an asymmetrical conflict.

The US Navy found this out the hard way in an exercise. The 'red team' (Iranians) launched a human wave suicide attack against the US fleet. The result was 16 American ships sunk, including 3 carriers, with about 20,000 US casualties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
http://www.rense.com/general64/fore.htm

So that explains the development of the RIM-116 RAM missile. I never knew why before. They are starting to be deployed on all combat ships in the US Navy. Seems to me they did learn something from this exercise way back when. I'm guessing they already knew this vulnerability to close in missiles because RAM development started back in the mid 90's.

-S