By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
It happened again yesterday. And it is extremely embarrassing.
A US nuclear submarine struck a ship in the Straits of Hormuz. No one was hurt. But the periscope of the sub was destroyed.
Evidently, the sub hit a fishing boat with its periscope. No damage was done to the civilian fishing vessel. According to an official Navy report, after the incident the fishing boat continued along unnoticed and unchanged in speed.
The statement from the 5th fleet reads "continued on a consistent course and speed offering no indication of distress or acknowledgment of a collision."
This is just one of many instances of US naval ships ramming one another and other vessels in the very narrow, very crowded, Straits of Hormuz.
It proves several important points:
The Straits are very hard to navigate.
The home team advantage goes to Iran which has much smaller subs.
For the US, even the best and most technologically proficient ships cannot be on top of one another without hitting one another.
Believe me, the Iranians are getting a good laugh about this - and it is at the expense of the United States.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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