‘We can move a vessel within three miles of New York City’

Mr Milo SG

oh, what kind of vessel?

A sampan?

Muhahahahahahahaha

I.imba SG

The problem is will they let you move out on the sea or underwater.

Dalforce 1941 SG

But the U.S can shoot an anti-ship missile and finish off the vessel.

Better to concentrate on targeting U.S ships in persian gulf first.

Khalij Fars

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

Anti-ship ballistic missile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ship_ballistic_missile

Mr Milo SG

What the Iranian general has said has proved he is ignorant of how much protection an aircraft carrier has

given their naval capabilities, any vessel approaching them will be sunk before they can come close

anyway, even if they manage to do that and devastate New York, the consequence for Iran will be worse than devastation

all their cities might be levelled to the ground

Dalforce 1941 SG

Have to wait until China perfects their anti-ship ballistic missile first.

I hope these can be deployed soon, so as to deter against U.S air craft carrier threats.

http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/china/admiral-china-progressing-on-anti-carrier-missile-system-1.130209

If the missile is a good weapon, I hope China can sell some to Iran.

alize SG

Only one country has ever done so- Germany. It is sad that boastful Iran does not even have WW2 technology.

Iran's only hope is sneaking a container on board someone else's container ship.

alize SG

Have to wait until China perfects their anti-ship ballistic missile first.

I hope these can be deployed soon, so as to deter against U.S air craft carrier threats.

http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/china/admiral-china-progressing-on-anti-carrier-missile-system-1.130209

If the missile is a good weapon, I hope China can sell some to Iran.

The Chinese missile is dependent on satellites that the US will easily shoot down. And when a shipborne counter to the system is developed, it will not be dependent on satellites. This system is not all that scary.

Chinese satellites must circle the globe and can be shot down by in any theatre the US has its 70 Aegis ships. China can only do likewise over its own territory.

weasel1962 SG

The PLA already got mobile CJ-10/DH-10s. The range of those 1,500+km missiles already far out-range the combat radius of carrier aircraft. What that means is that any carrier that goes within 1,500km of China's coast can possibly be targeted.

The mobility of land-based launchers make it very difficult to strike with tomahawks and even aircraft. And most importantly, China has dozens of such land based launchers each carrying 3 missiles each (seen in parade). Those can also be carried on TU-16s/H-6s of which the latest H-6K variants sport 6 pylons i.e. 6 missiles each.

A 100+ missile volley will make it very difficult to defend against even with Aegis. And it would be very difficult to take down the entire comms/sat system in the period from launch to strike. ASBMs just make it more difficult to take out the strike package (because more vectors of attack) and the higher speeds mean less reaction time.

And they will probably coordinate the missile strike with more air strikes by Su-30s/JH-7s (whilst the CVN air cover deals with the missiles).

weasel1962 SG

How the Iranians can get their naval vessel to NYC port waters...

...inflating a rubber dinghy at port side.

Mr Milo SG

And they will probably coordinate the missile strike with more air strikes by Su-30s/JH-7s (whilst the CVN air cover deals with the missiles).

If Iran does that, it will be outright declaration of war

the Bear SG

basically, move to 3 miles for %#$?

the iranians should know better.. overt shows of aggression will result in them being painted as "bad guys" and kena even more shit...

they also know that covert aggression will yield more result.. because they themselves kena terok terok with stuxnet... which until today no one has claimed responsibility and have crippled the iranian nuclear weapon programme