New Iranian Suicide Idea! - Threatening the US

[jnevis]

You know it ain't that easy Tom! 

The Kitty Hawk had a Chinese diesel boat pop up in the middle of the battle group a few years back.  It made quite a stir in the IUSS world!

Normally there are at least one or two LA class fast attack boats with a battle group!  Even they missed it!

I was on that cruise.  What a F-ing mess.  They wanted us on 10 min alert 24-7 but our OIC was smart enough to inform CAG that if we were launching on a 10 min alert we were at least an hour late.  Didn't stand alert after that.

I was also on Indpendence doing an OPPE and went to GQ and the evaluators had no clue what was happening.  Then a pair of flares is on teh horizon and all the helos and S-3s went off the pointy end in a HURRY!

[Timothy]

I was on that cruise.  What a F-ing mess.  They wanted us on 10 min alert 24-7 but our OIC was smart enough to inform CAG that if we were launching on a 10 min alert we were at least an hour late.  Didn't stand alert after that.

I was also on Indpendence doing an OPPE and went to GQ and the evaluators had no clue what was happening.  Then a pair of flares is on teh horizon and all the helos and S-3s went off the pointy end in a HURRY!

Ain't that stuff fun?

Glad you were there J and damn glad it didn't get out of hand!   

[sledgemeister]

From what I read, the attack of the Cole was the end event in a Keystone Cops type of plan.

From what I remember it took several tries to pull it off.

First try, the boat was to small and it sank or swamped before it got far from shore.

Second attempt, they got a bigger boat, but the pilot fell asleep and did not make the rendezvous with the explosives.

Third attempt was successful....

I seem to remember more attempts were made, but can't recall how they failed.

The Cole wasn't the ship they were going for on the failed attempts...it just happened to be the one in port when they got their act together.

 

Continual attempts maybe foolhardy, inept, or even keystone cops kinda crazy but it is dedication none the less,
No one person/nation can be 100% effective against a dedicated zealot/s with a cause.