Just imagine, a hundred missiles coming at one ship. There’s no way you could get them all. With that being said, I’ll let you have the last word on this one.

As a group, Muslims are paranoid and suffer chronically from the disease of victimization. That is, they either victimize the helpless whenever and wherever they can, or scream murder against the strong. This mentality is one of the many bequests that Muhammad left for his Ummah.

Amil Amani—Muslims Victim Mentality
Maybe that’s why liberals have such difficulty grasping the clash with Islam, it’s the shared victim mentality.

See, the Navy brass always plans for a neat, clean hi-tech war. Their real investment isn’t the Phalanx or Aegis but the operations rooms deep in the hulls where flabby desk jockeys sit at little screens. Those screens are supposed to show a few dots, nice fair-fighting Soviet surface ships and subs. That’s how the Navy wants to play the game. Seeing their beautiful screens clogged up by a bunch of goddamn cheap speedboats full of Revolutionary Guards, not to mention hundreds of “boxes” that might turn out to be mines, ruins everything.

If they had any sense they’d realize that the way to deal with big overloaded targets is to saturate their defenses with a swarm of low-cost attackers. If you’ve got lives to spend, and the Iranians sure do, you spend lives to sink hardware. It’s a good trade, when you consider what a carrier costs, and how little the average Iranian life is worth. They’re Shia! These guys can’t wait to give their lives away. The Kamikazes were squeamish moderates compared to the Revolutionary Guard. And thanks to Silicon Valley and its Chinese knockoffs, you can fire swarms of unmanned rockets instead of Shia martyrs, so you don’t even need to spend one life per blip on the US fleet’s little screens. You can even send empty rocket tubes as part of the swarm, because in the few seconds the surface vessel has to react, it can’t determine which threats are nuke, which are conventional HE and which are decoys.

But the Phalanx was never meant to handle swarms of low-tech attackers. That’s not the clean, temperate-zone war the computer dweebs in the Pentagon planned for. See, the original Phalanx only had 1000 rounds in its magazine. The newer models have 1.550, meaning even the USN realized that it was too easy to saturate the target with decoy attacks and deplete the magazine. But 1550 rounds isn’t much at that rate of fire–and the Achilles heel of the system is reloading. It’s not that easy to hoist 1550 20mm rounds into position, and I don’t think either van Riper or the Iranians would be likely to agree to a 15-minute reloading break.

If it was me, and maybe I’m too “cynical” or something, I’d send all my empty missile tubes and expendable suicide squads in the first wave, all at once like van Riper did. I’d count to 90, because 90 seconds would be enough to empty every Phalanx magazine–and you can bet that those scared Navy computer nerds down in the Operations Room would be holding the red buttons down till the barrels were melting when they realized they were under a real attack. Then, while the grunts below deck were hauling the ammo into position, I’d send the second wave with the real stuff. And that, as they say, would be that. A trillion dollars of US Navy hardware becomes an artificial reef.

Believe me, the War Nerd knows his stuff.

Obama is just another in a long line of sweet talking political empty suits. this problem has always existed and always will. as long as there is one Muslim and one infidel they will want to kill or convert them. when is the west going to get it straight, we either pull a Dresden and carpet bomb every city, hilltop, cave, and leave nothing over 2″ tall or this is just all academic jaw flapping and we will do it all over again and again. They will NEVER stop, it is their religion and culture. They are NOT like us and NEVER will be. They hate our ways and culture.

Man how stupid are we to beleive obama can do anything about a problem that is thousands of years old? The west never stops amazing me how weak we have become. 50 years ago we would have loaded up the b-52′s and not stopped until all bombs were gone.

Obama is a complete joke, he is the most liberal guy in the senate by FAR. If the dems are so stupid as to elect him, wow stunning.!!! He voted for bill to prevent emergency care to infants who survived an abortion attempt while in the state senate of Illinois…that is not wacko left wing ideology, that is evil.! This guy is FAR worse than Hillary. In fact I can hardly think of a worse person to be president, and there are a lot of sorry empty suits up in Washington. That is impressive even for the left.

Nazar, I still disagree as to what the outcome would be.

Phalanx Close-In Weapon System
The Close-In Weapon System, or Phalanx, is the Navy’s most populous ship self-defense weapon against anti-ship cruise missiles. This system has been given a significant block upgrade to provide capability against small, fast, surface targets and increased effectiveness against new generation, anti-ship cruise missiles.

Source.

A.T.C. LRAD.

Norris prods his assistant to locate the baby noise on a laptop, then aims the device at me. At first, the noise is dreadful — just primally wrong — but not unbearable. I repeatedly tell Norris to crank it up (trying to approximate battle-strength volume, without the nausea), until the noise isn’t so much a noise as an assault on my nervous system. I nearly fall down and, for some reason, my eyes hurt. When I bravely ask how high they’d turned the dial, Norris laughs uproariously. “That was nothing!” he bellows.

“That was about 1 percent of what an enemy would get. One percent!” Two hours later, I can still feel the ache in the back of my head.

Sound as a weapon.
These systems are in use, as we were paying attention too.

In 2002, the Navy even did a simulation of such an event. A Marine, Col Van Ripken, played the part of the Iranians. Using just civilian airplanes and small missile boats, he was able to sink two-thirds of our fleet in the Pacific. And you can bet the Iranians were paying attention.

Think of it as a bunch of bees swarming an elephant. Eventually, the bees win.

In fact, Reagan was savaged by the right-wing More War crowd such as yourselves.

As Reagan talked to the Soviets, this was the reaction from the right:

Led by Senator Jesse Helms and the Rev. Jerry Falwell, two dozen leading conservatives present the White House with a petition signed by two million citizens who object to ”trusting faithless enemies who never keep their word.”
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The ”Stronger America” lobby, initiated and largely funded by military contractors, launches a public-relations blitz in the national media based on the slogan, ”We never lost a war because we were too strong.” Nuclear hawks Richard Perle and Edward Rowney resign from the Administration, reportedly over disagreements about how accommodating to be to the Soviet Union.

I could go on with examples of Republican ‘leaders’ who were plenty afraid of negotiating with the Soviets and disagree mightily with your description of their “completely different mindset”.

I for one won’t be voting for a President who has so little faith in the f-ing strongest country in the world that he pisses his pants thinking about being in a room with Muslim heads of state.