Trump says Iranian 'fast-attack' ships that come close to US blockade will be eliminated

He was told there wouldn't be fact checking.

He also said their air defenses were completely destroyed, and then they shot down one our jets a few days later.

he also said Iran wants him to be supreme leader. Also said there was a ceasefire. He says many things, none of which are true

He didn't account for Davy Jones' locker.

The US sunk Iran's blue water Navy. These fast attack boats are speedboats armed with a mix of torpedoes, rockets, machine guns, suicide charges and occasionally anti-ship missiles. More like Ukrainian drone boats, but manned.

Yeah... But now they have to worry about the land boats

I think they were referring to Iran's ship's. They also have hundreds of small boats with weapons mounted on them. I remember them following us around when I was on deployment in 2017, you'd look out and have 20 small boats following you anywhere you went.

I guess he’s talking about the non-water boats.

Not the small boats. Iran has a ton of them. https://www.listnook.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fp2rn690s4sg61.jpg

Not the fast ones apparently

It's not the water boats. These are Iran's fire boats now. Next he will defeat the earth boats.

They use jet skis and shit

The navy sent him photos of them shooting missiles at rubber ducks because it’s just easier to get him back to his nursing home.

Came looking for this comment, happy to not be disappointed (in Listnookor commentors at least).

As opposed to... Gravy boats?

That was yesterday’s lie haha

He’s no Joy Boy.

His sorry ass wouldn’t even make it to the Grand Line.

Wait what? He’s going after swimwear? Where does it end?!

I wonder how many times his aides have tried explaining that Pandora isn’t real.

Trump lives each day as if tomorrow isn’t coming and yesterday can be lied about. Every day I think he wakes up and asks “how can I spin this about me.?” He has no curiosity. Each person is a transaction to obtain something.

The hair piece

God I just had a vision of him going and finding that chest the author dropped in the ocean with the us navy and ruining the end for everyone because he can’t let anyone have anything and we’re in hell

Probably right. He doesn't seem to understand what a ceasefire is either.

DJT: Let's use US Navy and other US military assets to accomplish the goals of Iran!  Also while at it, let's insult and demean our long-standing allies around the world!

He just revealed what they are afraid of, huh?

Don't worry though the money won't be going to the US. It will go to the "Peace Board" that Trump has sole access to. Though the US will pay for manning the passage.

You wouldn't believe what happened the last time JD Vance met the Pope.

I can’t understand that Americans read these news letters and don’t do anything about it. In lots of other places they would protest for days but they are too lazy to come out of the couch. 

Temu Palpatine

Comparing him with Palpatine is like comparing mosquito to the swarm of wasps

Anyone with any power to do something is on the inside getting rich off stock market manipulation

the cruel reality might actually be, that this whole shitshows only reason is to be able to manipulate the markets. if u think if it that way, the iran war is perfect! he makes billions

Because the people with the power to stop this are getting disgustingly rich from it.

He doesn't change his mind, that implies some kind of consideration, and an ability to retain information.. He doesn't have permanence of thought, he merely shits out a series of disconnected sentences He doesn't hold opinions that can be repeated by asking the same deterministic question, he's like a slow fleshy LLM

are speed boats inflatable?

Maybe Iran takes a page out of Ukraine's book and turns those boats into sea drones.

I was just thinking- what about the drones. They can just launch drone swarms.

I have a boat in my backyard, is that a navy?

The same bullshit they’ve used forever. Have a family friend, retired navy.  Told me all the time about how when they would pass through the strait Iran would send these ships out.. they’d run em over if they got in the way back then.  They’re hardly special military boats, just some extra stuff on the hulls.. bigger motor and some guns.. boom “fast ship”

Yes, there are many of them, and yes, US Navy ships use distance as a part of their defense, but this strategy is not unknown to the US military. In 2002, the US participated in the Millennium Challenge. In that exercise, the US forces were the Blue Team, with the Red Team representing opposing forces. In that exercise, a retired USMC Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper (yep, that's a real name) used swarm tactics to overwhelm and defeat a US Carrier Battle Group. The Red Team used small, fast-boats laden with explosives simultaneously with cruise missiles. Within a few minutes, the Red Team had sunk 19 ships, including a carrier. The event led to significant controversy, with Van Riper ultimately walking out on the exercise after a forced reset and a change of rules that favored the Blue Team. Pretty much bullshit. However, it's been more than 20 years since then, and fast-boat tactics weren't new at the time Van Riper used them. Fast-boat swarm tactics go way back. Iran bought some of their earliest fast-boats from Sweden in the 1980s. What Van Riper did was demonstrate the clear limit of contemporary AEGIS tracking systems. Those limits are not the same today, but using small, c**** boats to overwhelm billions of dollars worth of advanced naval technology is an S-tier asymmetric warfare strategy. In the intervening years, that exercise was reviewed by the entirety of the US military leadership who weren't so close to the specific exercise, and were therefore more willing to recognize the defeat and the urgent need for counter-measures The USN has added specific counter-measures to their layered defense strategy. Advancements in directed-energy weapons are a major factor in reducing the asymmetry of swarm tactics. Laser and HPM weapons cost very little to fire, because the consumable is primarily energy. They've also developed much lower cost traditional weapons like counter-force drone swarms and interceptors. This helps avoid the problem of using a $4M missile to defeat a $50k threat. Arleigh Burke destroyers now have HELIOS, and smaller boats have ODIN. HPM is still in development, but should be on the water in 2026. Interceptor drones are in active use, and kinetic interceptor drones are mid-rollout. Joint Maritime Operations are also playing a big role. There are a *lot* of A-10 enthusiasts, so you've likely heard about this already, but the Navy is working together with the Air Force to deploy A-10 patrols in the area. The A-10 has a very effective canon onboard, as well as a new laser guided variant of old school rocket pods. This combo provides a relatively inexpensive response to Iranian swarm tactics. It's worth pointing out though that the A-10 cannot operate from a carrier. Without US Air Force bases in the region, we would not have this option. The Trump administration appears to be speed-running a strategy that is very likely to dramatically reduce the number of bases we have around the world. Just f****** brilliant.