>>64911560
I'd rather land a team on deck and capture it.

>>64911560
I want a remake of Battlestar Galactica set in modern times.

-NPC west nukes Iran.
-Sole Iran carrier has to wander the oceans looking for a new homeland as they're constantly fending off attacks.

I don't know what "earth" would be in this scenario.

An RC F35 should take it out or even funnier we should start parking drones on it

>>64911560
Good question. Why is it still floating? Let's make the Great Trump Reef with Iran's navy again

>>64911733
It's going to Los Angeles if anything anon

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>>64911733
>I don't know what "earth" would be in this scenario.

Russia's unused "Jewish Autonomous Oblast"

>>64911733
who would be the Gaius Baltar figure of Battlestar Persiatica?

>>64911743
>Why is it still floating?
Is it?

>>64911560
It'd be funnier if we landed F35Bs on it and said it's ours now, upgrading from snatching tankers to snatching converted tankers

>>64912005
Would also be the first ship captured from the enemy since WWII when we captured that german sub

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>>64912754
>your dogtags says army
Explains the M1A1 on the flightdeck.

>>64912754
Fuck-fuck Circus always gets a chuckle out of me.

>>64911743
It's probably not worth the ordinance to sink it and she can only launch slow, inoffensive UAVs and turboprop floatplanes.

It's like the Kutznetsov, it's so ineffective that sinking it would only benefit them.

>>64911560
Calling it now: it'll be sinking within the week

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>there are reports of the USS Lincoln engaging "Iranian Navy vessels"
>no fucking details at all
I should just go to bed early because we're not gonna know shit today huh?

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>>64912744
*ahem*
The USS Pueblo tour girls giggle at your sheer carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism in incorrectly stating historical fact and recommend your reeducation in a proper Korean Style manner. You will arrive at the Ministry at 6:00 AM Monday, do not speak. Sit in the BLUE chair and await further instruction.

>>64912754
who installed that huge turret on the deck

>>64912807
Finally got a gigachad secretary of the navy to declare Nimitzes will never be real capital ships until they're packing 16 inch guns

>>64912811
dude probably ripped it off an iowa with his bare hands to save cost.

>>64912754
For me it's the stolen Combat Arms splashscreen art.

>>64912766
I got favorite my "I just work here" line from that
>You're the ringmaster of this Fuck-Fuck Circus, I'm just one of the clowns

>>64911560
why would you waste expensive missiles to sink a movie prop?

>>64912802
lol didnt read

>>64911560
I’m sad they aren’t going to sail the the captured Ayatollah to the States on it.

>>64913049
We used a bomb to destroy Hugo Chavez’s mausoleum during the Maduro op just for shits and giggles

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>>64912754
loled

>>64913089
That was fake news.

Imagine an Iranian drone carrier engaging US carriers! Probably the greatest sea battles since Falklands, if not WWII itself!

>>64912754
God i love this pic

Do they even know where it is?

>>64911733
>I don't know what "earth" would be in this scenario
France.

>>64912802
>spot on nose
Convenient bullseye.

>>64913049
Propaganda factor.

>>64912754
>airstrip comically short because fuck aircraft what do they think this is an aircraft carrier?
>the lone singular cannon has to but put on an angle to prevent it from blasting their own jets taking off
>the longest part of the carrier is not for the aircraft, but for the lone tank to go up up and down the bow
Judging by the oaratrooping force, this clear diversionary aircraft carrier, clearly made to distract third worlders from the real airfract carriers, was a success. I assume the dog tags are to show that inside the ship are an entire army battalion there just to kill the special forces of any third world country that would be sent out to capture said carrier

>>64912798
If a carrier engages anything it's actually the aircraft that do the engaging. So it's just boring airstrikes

I need the US to land a little RC plane sized drone on it with a little flag that just says
>BANG!
Then and only then should they be allowed to sink it

>>64911560
I wish that thing could be captured intact, send it back to the US and rent it out for birthday parties.
Assuming that thing is sea worthy, which is a big assumption

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This was a bad week to join the Iranian Navy.

>>64917114
>praying mantis 2: electric boogaloo

>>64911560
where even is this pos at right now?

>>64913301
This. I want a US carrier strike group engage and sink the Iranian carrier simply for historical reasons

Cant marines and/or seals just board it and we can steal it. We can add it to the stolen tanker fleet as an escort lol

>>64917590
Don't besmirch the Iran Navy of that time period. They at least manned their posts and left the harbor.

>>64918319
I want a single Independence class to engage and sink the Iranian "carrier," because it would maximize the butthurt on both sides.

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>>64918300
last I saw, about 4 miles from port
this was a couple weeks ago, and afaik it's been there for months

>>64918340
some way somehow I just need an A-10 to be ferried over there and rip it in half

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>>64918471
It could do it with a single JDAM, and it would cause a monumental amount of seethe. All depends on how the SEAD is going.

>>64918539
>piss off the navy by letting the chair force kill the enemy boat
>piss off stealthfags by letting the braphog get it
>piss off BRRRTfags by using the braphog like a missile truck
I like this plan a lot, the best plans are the ones that ensure the most amount of people are upset by it

I wonder if we'll see any sub action in this conflict. And by that I mean sub-on-sub action. Last one I can think of was during the Falklands FAFO except the Argie's recalled theirs before the Brits could give it a good rogering.

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>>64918471
Someway, somehow, there is an alternate timeline that is just peak
(This is from just a few weeks ago. Published by CENTCOM so almost certainly out of Bahrain.)

>>64918691
Very unlikely. If Iran is going to actually operate their navy (yet to be seen) then they will keep their little subs nut-hugging up near the shore. Its the only enviroment where they have a prayer of working. Meanwhile, the SSNs are not going to go anywhere near the coast. If we are really lucky, a P-8 will spot one and a Burke will fire off an ASROC at it.

>>64917114
Nah,you get promoted to admiral in record time.

>>64918881
hegseth if you're reading this I'll take back everything negative I ever said about you if you make this happen
please I'm begging

>>64911743
Despite what Iran likes to say, their two navies aren't able to defend the nation and as such a decapitation strike wouldn't start with the navies.

>>64913311
It truly is the /k/arrier

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it's over

>>64921453
Now this is power projection

>>64921476
The only casualties were the sides of the people who bombed it.

>>64921481
I think you get a 10% for that now

>>64918999
Maybe, but Trump was on his social media site bragging about sinking a bunch of Iranian Navy ships, so you would think he'd tell them to sink it as well if he has any say in the matter.

>>64921453
i wouldve loved this as a kid

the most /k/ toy i ever got was an M1 Abrams tank that could fire and you could sort of extend the turret upwards

>>64921476
>it's real
https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2028510305920143434

>>64921481
And the people hit by the sides after they returned from orbit.

>>64921476
>>64921495
Scratch one craptop!

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>>64921476
Armchair Warlord was right again
He predicted that a carrier would be sunk in the Persian Gulf

>>64921524
Link?

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>>64911560
>>64911733
Its not doing so well

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>>64921524
>Armchair Warlord was right again
>He predicted that a carrier would be sunk in the Persian Gulf
Endangered species the Iranian navy

This would definitively shatter both the records of the Belgrano and the Moskva as the biggest naval loss since 1945, right?

>>64921476
eagerly waiting for pics

>>64921524
Nigga has got a worse track record with predictions than King Croesus of Lydia

>>64921545
Maybe most hilarious.

>>64921545
I don't think Moskva can be beat, in terms of loss of prestige and an (ideally) usable asset. She was once a strong warship.
I'm still shocked we've never gotten images of her wreck.

>>64921565
>>64921559
I was actually going by simple length/tonnage (which was previously in dispute since Moskva had one and Belgrano had the other)
Biggest in the physical sense, not historical

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>>64921565
>I'm still shocked we've never gotten images of her wreck.
We all know why.

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>>64921545
CENTCOM only reports that it was hit, not sunk. Hope they release footage of it being hit with a quicksink.

>>64921570
In that case, wooo yeah. Both cruisers topped out at around twelve thousand tons. Iran's thing is over forty.

>>64921476
where were you when Shahid Bagheri dies ?

I was at home drinking mountain dew when centcom post


Shahid Bagheri is kil

no

>>64921495
good night sweet prince
>>64921524
kek

>>64921565
>>64921570
IMO it shouldn't count. It's not a purpose built warship.

>>64921476
Is this why /k/ was being spammed?

>>64921610
Count how? I wouldn't say it's an "aircraft carrier sunk in combat" (unless you want to say that about anything with a helipad or that could launch a UAV), but it is a large hull sent down. If she actually sank.

NOOO WHERE’S MY GRAND NAVAL BATTLE OF HONOR

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footage from Iranian state media today
they thankfully had a guy with a camcorder on hand to capture an Iranian missile plowing through the five American carriers bunched together, skipping the one with a ramp to destroy the one with deck guns

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>>64921701
That's a totally real and tubular footage video, I am demoralized and ashamed

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First and only satellite imagery out of Bandar Abbas. Not to be confused with Konarak where we saw sunken Corvettes.

The lion's share of the Iranian Navy was in port at Bandar Abbas the day before the strikes,
https://www.hisutton.com/Iranian-Navy-In-Port.html

Only one ship, the IRIS Makran, is seen in satellite imagery damaged in port. Corvette berth 2 along with Frigate berth 4 seem to have been struck as well. Interestingly berths for both Midget and KILO-class submarines seem undamaged, at least to me.

>>64921701
Damn the deck guns didnt even fire... grim...

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>>64921718
IRIS Makran closeup.

>>64911733
This guy's a virgin btw

>>64921701
Not the Lexington!

>>64921701
I didn't know rocket assisted dildos were a thing?

>>64921737
A 72 virgin.

>>64921701
>0:09
is that a Yorktown?

>>64921701
State media are playing War Thunder while their country gets bombed?

>>64921718
>>64921728
A hit at the base of the superstructure? Depending on whatever was dropped on her, the bridge and any other command centers probably got mangled. I don't put much faith in either the ship's own systems or the crew's damage control capability, so it will probably burn there until enough leaks open up and she settles.

>>64921773
Oh for sure I'm counting IRIS Makran as out of the fight. Not sure about the rest of the fleet.

>>64921701
Oh no Essex has been hit!

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It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down.

>>64921780
Were you ever counting them in?

>>64921799
Fingers still crossed for an LCS or A-10

>>64921701
I've seen some shills post this video as authentic footage.

>>64921728
>>64921622
Technically this big girl is now the largest warship ever sunk.

It’s not fair if US just sinks those ships without them even getting to fire back! How are we supposed to get any new epic naval battles for history books like this?

>>64921799
Please let there be footage please let there be footage oh god ill give you anything just give me footage of this little meme ship launching its tiny little rc helicopters.

>>64921836
>How are we supposed to get any new epic naval battles for history books like this?
We generate them: >>64921701

>>64921830
I think Yamato was bigger.
Yamato: ~65,000 long tons
Makran: ~55,000 gross tons

>>64911733
>-Sole Iran carrier has to wander the oceans looking for a new homeland as they're constantly fending off attacks.
>>64911779
>Russia's unused "Jewish Autonomous Oblast"
That would be quite the journey. It would echo the epic odyssey of Russia's Baltic fleet's journey to Tsushima.

>>64921613
>Is this why /k/ was being spammed?
I don't think you can point to any one thing that is the inciting incident, it's all just a vibe now.

We're living through a kind of geopolitical Fin de siècle that appears to me to be a kind of historical correction of the lingering traces of imperialism and autocracy that somehow clung to life through the age of freedom, peace and prosperity that was the latter half of the 20th century.
Course corrections tend to over-correct a bit and there'll be some wobble as we oscillate back and forth between extremes but humanity will settle down into a peaceful and prosperous equilibrium eventually.

>>64921701
xaxaxa, 216 American pigdog crewmen killed, carrier sunk along with 17 SBD Dauntless dive bombers, 13 F4F Wildcat fighters and 12 TBD Devastator torpedo bombers

>>64921830
All three vessels of the Yamato class still hold that record. And that's not changing unless a Nimitz or the Ford goes down.

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>>64911560
Couldn't find a better pic but the ramp reminds me of a hobo's boot from old cartoons only missing the stinky sock with the the toe sticking out

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>>64921799
Things of the past.

>>64921718
TankerTrackers claims Shahid Bagheri was seen on satellite fleeing it's previous location after Makran had been hit, but annoying doesn't post the satellite imagery
https://x.com/TankerTrackers/status/2028473358086717743

>>64921766
>is that a Yorktown?
I think it's a bad idea to try and match AI genned weapons/vehicles etc to real ones. They're never more than hints of real things so they're actually relying on your brain to fill in the blanks and match patterns with real things you remember.
Don't help them out by actively participating in the process.

Or to put it another way, please look at their misses, not their hits. It only takes one wrong detail to show that it's not an X, the fact that it got a part of it right doesn't make it an X, it makes the delusion inspired by X.

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>>64921799
oh nonononono

>>64921857
>we will never seen an another Operation Ten-Go
Why even live?

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>>64921842
>>How are we supposed to get any new epic naval battles for history books like this?
>We generate them: >>64921701
Well said anon

>>64921859
Like tears in rain.

I wonder, do they have a script to quickly change a Wiki article to past tense?

>>64921799
>>64921878
But elon told me jets were obsolete in the age of drones?

>>64921891
Who needs a script when you have three dozen Ritalin-snorting autists?

>>64921899
Jets are just drones with a biological super computer.

>>64911560
They spend YEARS building this floating pile of crap and bigging it up and just like that

poof

It's gone.

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>>64921718
https://x.com/Schizointel/status/2028549261399347334

>>64921799
>>64921728
So there's one more drone carrier left, right?

>>64921950
We don't know.
Shahid Bagheri is claimed struck by CENTCOM. No visual confirmation yet.
No word on Shahid Mahdavi or Shahid Roudaki. Shahid Mahdavi was south of Bandar Abbas just like Shahid Bagheri, so was likely targeted as well. Can't find anything on where Shahid Roudaki was.

>>64921766
It's a Japanese carrier dressed up as a Yorktown.

>>64921815
Technically if it's seaworthy it's in the fight.

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>>64921948

>>64921956
So we still have the hope of getting a grand naval battle of honor that decides the fate between unipolar and multipolar world?

>>64921984
Depends on what you define as grand.

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>>64921984
Navy?

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CENTCOM claiming to have destroyed all Iranian ships in the Gulf of Oman. Posts video of one ship getting hit in port; don't know which one.
https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2028553001644736808

Note; the only Iranian Naval base in the Gulf of Oman are Konarak and Jask. We also know there several submarines untouched at port in Bandar Abbas, so CENTCOM is using shifty wording to make it sound like they sunk the entire Iranian Navy without actually saying it.
I'm not saying the Iranian Navy stands a chance, I'm just pointing out the facts.

>>64922028
Iranian Navy Moudge-class frigate IRIS Jamaran
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2028554737667154154

>>64922028
IT'S A FUCKING NUKE
All memery aside, good levelheaded analyses so far. I wonder if they're trying to leave some stuff (and only engage if it tries to sail) on the chance they can get personnel there to evaluate it.
Although if there are some subs out there and we get to see actual ASW, then it's just another bonus for the ones who like to see cool stuff.

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Any idea what this little port is on F-35-chan?

[spoiler]does she poop from there?[/spoiler]

>>64922084
It's for my cock

>>64921883
>AI genned
Isn’t that just war thunder?

How dangerous is the "second navy" of small boats? Could they just swarm out and drift at sea until they see a bigger target?

>>64922107
I think they would only be usable against tankers going down the strait, if all of them haven't already turned around. The idea that they were going to try to rush a naval group was always silly.

>>64922107
Biggest limit is ISR. They have missiles/drone launchers but they're going to be seen before they can get into launch position and they don't have any sort of long range air defense so they will get blown up before they can get anything through. If Iran had enough coordination they may be able to mass them for a saturation attack but I think that requires a level of command and control that is currently obliterated and by the time they've built it back up it will probably be too late for them to matter.

So far we know,

>Bandar Abbas:
Makran-class forward base ship IRIS Makran heavily damaged on satellite imagery.
Moudge-class frigate/corvette IRIS Sahand(?) damaged on satellite imagery.
Avland-class frigate IRIS Sabalan(?) seemingly damaged on satellite imagery.
Moudge-class frigate/corvette IRIS Zagros(?) seemingly damaged on satellite imagery.
KILO-class submarine IRIS Nooh untouched; possibly already unseaworthy.
Moudge-class frigate/corvette IRIS Taftan(?) untouched.

>South of Bandar Abbas:
CENTCOM claim drone carrier Shahid Bagheri struck.
No word on drone carrier Shahid Mahdavi.

>Konarak
Moudge-class frigate/corvette IRIS Jamaran struck on video and sunk in satellite imagery.
Bayandor-class corvette IRIS Bayandor sunk on satellite imagery.
Bayandor-class corvette IRIS Naghdi sunk on satellite imagery.
CENTCOM claim all ships in port sunk.

>Gulf of Oman:
CENTCOM claim all 11 ships sunk including at Konarak)

>>64922084
APU exhaust

>>64922107
They could bring submarines out of brine and then everyone will see how the pickle measures

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>>64922006
Why's she all blinged up like that?
It's just going to snag on stuff between the sheets.

>>64922083
>I wonder if they're trying to leave some stuff (and only engage if it tries to sail) on the chance they can get personnel there to evaluate it.
The new government might be friendly enough to be allowed to have some boats and even quicksinks cost at least a couple of $$$ so... picrel

>>64922091
>Isn’t that just war thunder?
I wouldn't know, I assumed it was AI because...you know, everything is these days but if it's good old vidya footage being used for propaganda then I've got to say, the classics don't go out of style and I respect the tradition.

>>64922084
for pegging

>>64922140
So she does poop from there. Hot.

>>64922197
>poop
More like brap.

>>64912754
>Redeployed 2
oh fuck

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>>64922208
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SHE MIGHT BE ALIVE LADS
https://x.com/TankerTrackers/status/2028570303845036073