Ships under attack in the middle east

Freakbro · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:35

Initial reports on the news that a second British tanker has turned sharply towards Iran too...

bjorkiii · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:40

They have a very large magnet that's all. should have made the tankers out of wood.

Minstadave · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:44

Freakbro said:
Initial reports on the news that a second British tanker has turned sharply towards Iran too...

This seems a good way to start a war.

terley · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:46

Im too fat for war, maybe my computer science degree will land me an intelligence role..

Rroff · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:46

Minstadave said:
This seems a good way to start a war.

I can't see how this ends any way but confrontationally unless Iran backs down - we'd already said (atleast "on paper") the Iranian tanker would be returned with the right assurances so a negotiated swap now makes the UK look like a push over.

CaptainRAVE · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:46

Freakbro said:
Initial reports on the news that a second British tanker has turned sharply towards Iran too...

If that is the case we have absolutely no choice but to unleash hell.

azazl187 · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:47

Rroff said:
I can't see how this ends any way but confrontationally unless Iran backs down - we'd already said (atleast "on paper") the Iranian tanker would be returned with the right assurances so a negotiated swap now makes the UK look like a push over.

The UK is a push over... We dont havent he men or money to go to war with Iran.

Nasher · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:49

azazl187 said:
The UK is a push over... We dont havent he men or money to go to war with Iran.

The UK really isn't, even with the reduced manpower. 1 Type-45 in the area basically denies Iran's entire airforce.

CaptainRAVE · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:49

azazl187 said:
The UK is a push over... We dont havent he men or money to go to war with Iran.

The US at this point has no choice but to act with us. We also have plenty of cruise missiles and nukes.

bjorkiii · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:51

Hopefully with trump strapped to a cruise missile, he will teach emm.

gettothechopper · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:51

Yeah looks like 2 now

Rroff · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:51

Bit hard to wave this one away as a false flag with Iran publicly celebrating the captures.

Dirk Diggler · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:53

Careering out of Europe and Boris Johnson going to war in his first week in the job.

Brilliant.

RoboCod · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:53

Rroff said:
Bit hard to wave this one away as a false flag with Iran publicly celebrating the captures.

In that case.... FALSE FLAG!!

Over Clocker · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:53

azazl187 said:
The UK is a push over... We dont havent he men or money to go to war with Iran.

Not really... Just one Type 45 Destroyer could render a lot of Iran's air & sea military useless.

The problem is the political will to do something like this....

However, a ship rescue against Iran at this time would be very popular from the government and divert attention from domestic issues!

Nasher · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:54

Rroff said:
Bit hard to wave this one away as a false flag with Iran publicly celebrating the captures.

Iran seems to love playing in to the hands of the US by it's own actions.

RoboCod · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:54

CaptainRAVE said:
War it is then. May as well put our equipment to good use. This is exactly why cutbacks don’t work.

Perfect timing for that huge 2.9% pay rise for the forces then lol.

Hagar · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:56

We could possibly deny them any exports of oil at all until ships are released.

melchy · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:56

I really don't want to see a war or even any sort of hostility, but I think Iran may have misinterpreted us as being a bit soft. I think with all the hits the UKs world standing has taken recently I wouldn't bet on there not being a bit of a backlash from us.

Nasher · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:57

nkata said:
We could possibly deny them any exports of oil at all until ships are released.

Might be what happens tbh. Iran needs to shift oil to Europe or they will go bankrupt, it's that simply really. They will have to fold eventually, but they will probably do something stupid first.