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Biden Administration Sends Unmistakable Warning to Iran: a Ohio-class SSGN Will Soon Arrival at Your Doorstep.

The guided missile nuclear-powered submarine can carry about 150 Tomahawk missiles, each packed with a 1,000 lb. warhead.

It's clear that U.S. patience is wearing thin as Iranian-backed attacks on U.S. troops in the region have continued.

The fact that the U.S. has announced a SSGN deployment is rare enough in itself.

Our aircraft carrier battle groups are also on the move, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group having entered the Red Sea over the weekend. It is now in position to undertake airstrikes against Iran and Iranianp-backed groups in the region.

Meanwhile, the USS Carl Vinson strike group has arrived in the Western Pacific, while the USS Ronald Reagan makes a port call in the Philippines.

The Royal Canadian Navy frigate, HMCS Ottawa, conducted a transit of the Taiwan Strait with the destroyer USS Rafael Peralta, with the predicable protests from China.
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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Personally I think it inherently dangerous to make disingenuous threats in an area so rife with itchy trigger fingers just desperate for somebody to flinch.

But this is what it's come to is it ?
beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP
@Picklebobble2

"Gunboat diplomacy."
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@beckyromero There is no diplomacy with Iran. We knew that forty years ago which is what makes this move so odd at this time
As if the U.S. has finally decided to force the issue.
But if that's the thinking let's hope the next place they challenge is Saudi Arabia.
If you're going after the source of the financing the next logical step would be the source of the training camps.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@Picklebobble2 The dummies in Washington are walking into a trap. You can bet that the ships will be attacked and sunk. What will they do then?
beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP
@Picklebobble2

Believe me, if I had my way...

beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP
@Diotrephes
The dummies in Washington are walking into a trap. You can bet that the ships will be attacked and sunk. What will they do then?

Unlike the Ruskies, the U.S. Navy can take care of itself.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@beckyromero Unlike the Ruskies, the U.S. Navy can take care of itself.

We shall soon see.