BREAKING NEWS! Iranian warships approaching U.S.

[joeorc]

ArnoldRimmer said:

I doubt it would be that easy. Just think of the USS Liberty, the ship that israeli jet fighters attacked during the six-day war in a false flag attack, in order to drag the US into the war. It was "only" a technical research ship (so probably not as heavily armored as a true warship), several israeli aircrafts attacked it for hours, and yet, it simply wouldn't sink.

That incident btw may have been one of the biggest and underestimated miracles in history - LBJ had already sent bombers to Cairo, which according to certain sources were armed with nuclear weapons. It was pretty much in the very last moment, when it became clear that the ship hadn't sunk and eyewitnesses had survived that LBJ called back the bombers. That day, the world may have actually been even closer to the brink of a nuclear world war than during the cuba crisis.

you bring up a very great point, but also add into that i was on the uss forrestal, it was the very 1st supercarrier we had built in the US Navy the thing is unlike most supercarrier's today the ships that were much older were built with steel belted Hull's!

not just small steel, 2" thick yes even on a supercarrier! the battleships were 17" thick plate steel belted Hull! add in advanced fire control systems and ani-missile systems and forward observation planes with fighter jets. you kinda get the picture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_armor

the main spaces sometimes @ sitrep had to be repaired in drydock so you get first hand experience with looking at lots of rusted surface steel in those sections below the water line..grin