What Weapons Would US Navy Use as ‘Lethal Response’ to Iran’s 'Provocations'?

[rangerrebew]

What Weapons Would US Navy Use as ‘Lethal Response’ to Iran’s 'Provocations'?
 
05:48 GMT 24.04.2020(updated 06:01 GMT 24.04.2020) Get short URL
by Oleg Burunov
 
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump tweeted that he has given the green light to the American Navy to attack and sink small Iranian military vessels if they start harassing US military ships.

In an article for Fox News, Kris Osborn, managing editor of the American military news outlet Warrior Maven noted that US Navy ships have a spate of modern weapons to “destroy Iranian threats in the Persian Gulf if needed”.

    According to him, these include attack drones, deck-mounted guns, electronic warfare weapons (EW), and “and even lasers” which Osborn said could be used as a “lethal response” to what he described as “provocations, hostile actions, or attacks” by Iranian forces.

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[Axeslinger]

@rangerrebew

CIWS all day and twice on Sunday.  “Relatively” low tech and if you’ve never seen what they do to something like one of those patrol boats, you’re missing out.  And oh my god, are they loud (when you’re 20 feet away working on the wiring of the Captain’s gig  )

[Elderberry]

The U.S. Navy Has a Plan to Destroy Any Swarm Boat Attacks by Iran

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-navy-has-plan-destroy-any-swarm-boat-attacks-iran-78126

    To counter small boat threats, the Navy has been working on specific defense scenarios wherein surface ships are attacked in exercises by swarms of armed small boats. Much of this has involved combat preparations with services’ Littoral Combat Ship -- to prepare a suite of integrated weapons systems and sensors for major ocean warfare - including missiles, guns, drones and inflatable boats.

    The assessments are intended to help pave the way for deployment of the Navy’s Surface Warfare Mission Package (SUW), an integrated system of weapons being prepared for combat by the Navy. SUW is engineered to destroy small craft approaching at speeds up to 35 knots or more, Navy developers say. The weapons are intended to reinforce one another and operate in a synchronized fashion.

    The SUW’s Missile Module is comprised of 24 ship-fired Longbow Hellfire Missiles, 30-and-57mm guns, 11-meter rigid hull inflatable boats, helicopters and vertical-take-off-and-landing ship-launched drones. Ship launched Hellfires, for instance, can utilize all-weather millimeter wave radar, inertial guidance or semi-active laser targeting to fire upon enemy ships, helicopters, fixed-wing assets or drones attacking the LCS. The concept with the overall module is to enable each platform to function as a “node” on a larger network.

[Fishrrman]

"What Weapons Would US Navy Use as ‘Lethal Response’ to Iran’s 'Provocations"

Use them all.

[Cyber Liberty]

Bottle rockets will do the job.