Posted on Aug 4, 2017
US Navy patrol ships test fire Griffin missiles in Persian Gulf
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Practice Makes Perfect, I Suspect this Training Evolution has something to do with a Recent Activity of one of these Ships.
US Navy patrol ships test fire Griffin missiles in Persian Gulf
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Persian/Arabian Gulf
Bahrain
Training
Iran
Weapons
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Bushehr, a port that always gave us fits when running Earnest Will convoys in the 80s.
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Great read. Very insightful. Thank you PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
The whole idea of outfitting the Navy’s hard-working Cyclone Class (and possibly other) patrol boats with the Griffin is to give them an extra layer of defenses against swarming boats, a tactic Iran would surely employ during combat with its neighbors and the U.S. should hostilities ever break out. It is also a very effective and quickly employed weapon against potential ship-borne suicide bombers that may attempt to make a run at a patrol vessel ship or a ship it is protecting.
The whole idea of outfitting the Navy’s hard-working Cyclone Class (and possibly other) patrol boats with the Griffin is to give them an extra layer of defenses against swarming boats, a tactic Iran would surely employ during combat with its neighbors and the U.S. should hostilities ever break out. It is also a very effective and quickly employed weapon against potential ship-borne suicide bombers that may attempt to make a run at a patrol vessel ship or a ship it is protecting.
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