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Old 09-29-11, 06:02 PM   #1
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Iran to build aircraft carrier!
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/201620.html

YEA RIGHT!!!

1st thing I thought was: Is Ivan selling the Kuznetsov?!?
2nd thing was: They got a buyer for HMS Invincible?

So THAT is what this photo was of:
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Old 09-29-11, 06:15 PM   #2
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Does their Jamaran even qualify as a destroyer by today's standards?
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Old 09-29-11, 06:22 PM   #3
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Good idea and hope it costs lot more than they can spend.
They already have the new f-18s...and tomcats.
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Old 09-29-11, 06:28 PM   #4
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Does their Jamaran even qualify as a destroyer by today's standards?
it didn't qualify as a Destroyer by the standards of the 1970s when it was designed.
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Old 09-29-11, 06:46 PM   #5
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A carrier? They need to build a DDG first IMO...
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Old 09-29-11, 08:00 PM   #6
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Let them sink all manner of expensive resources into it. If they succeed...

The new Iranian carrier Ayatollah Khomeini two minutes after it's commissioning.
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A carrier? They need to build a DD first IMO...
*Fixed that for you.
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Old 09-29-11, 08:15 PM   #8
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I think we should name an SSN USS Praying Mantis and permanently station it in the Arabian Gulf just to screw with the Iranians.
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Old 09-29-11, 11:33 PM   #9
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I think we should name an SSN USS Praying Mantis and permanently station it in the Arabian Gulf just to screw with the Iranians.
Just make them think you have one and watch their economies collapse trying to find it
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Let them sink all manner of expensive resources into it. If they succeed...

The new Iranian carrier Ayatollah Khomeini two minutes after it's commissioning.


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Old 09-30-11, 06:01 AM   #11
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Let them sink all manner of expensive resources into it. If they succeed...

The new Iranian carrier Ayatollah Khomeini two minutes after it's commissioning.

Hey now, there are alot of realism freaks around here!

Try this on for size

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Old 09-30-11, 06:14 AM   #12
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Reading that article had me thinking "That Deputy Navy Commander must be on drugs"

I reckon the best they can aim for is purchasing something another country is done with.
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I suppose something along the lines of the early Bogue class converted merchantmen wouldn't be out of their depth. A modern tanker, should have the length to launch and land jets.

Making it anything other than a laughingstock, by modern standards of carrier design, is another matter entirely.

Hrm, is Iran looking at buying any of the harriers soon to hit the market?
Almost any converted merchantman could handle those.

Just tossing some ideas out there.
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Old 09-30-11, 08:16 AM   #14
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Reading that article had me thinking "That Deputy Navy Commander must be on drugs"

I reckon the best they can aim for is purchasing something another country is done with.
Well, it's strange because I recall a saying that we wouldn't be able to afford to run both QE carriers when they're made...what's the betting some nugget in the MoD will put the two together...
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Well, it's strange because I recall a saying that we wouldn't be able to afford to run both QE carriers when they're made...what's the betting some nugget in the MoD will put the two together...
HMS Queen Elisabeth & IS Prince of Wales?
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