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Subject: The Target Barge Has Its Close-Up
SYSOP    5/20/2015 5:51:15 AM
 
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HR    Where is an LCS or a Cyclone when you need one?   5/20/2015 2:02:25 PM
All kidding aside they did not need to build this to practice. An old merchant man with containers on top for target would have been better. This sort of thing using a mock-up is for the benefit of the local yahoos and as a provocation to others. We have already talked about who much security will accompany any carrier entering the Gulf waters...
 
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joe6pack       5/20/2015 3:29:39 PM
I sort of hope the movie or tv is correct..  I rather enjoyed a Bollywood movie I caught, while in Egypt.. that had something to do with Ninjas fighting Pirates.   While I doubt the Tehran film industry is up to those high standards.. I'd sort of look forward to the Persian version of  "Sink The Bismark"... err I mean "Sink the Great Satan" (or something like that..
 
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trenchsol       5/20/2015 4:12:04 PM
HR, my guess is that there are political reasons to build a mockup of USS Nimitz. Some 70 - 80 years ago they would have built a mockup of HMS Hood.
 
 
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Nate Dog    Actually....   5/20/2015 7:34:16 PM
I bet there are a bunch of left wing US film studios just aching to do some kind of disaster movie or action movie that involves a Nimitz type either sinking or getting crap kicked out of it.
I bet they're lining up waiting for sanctions to lift so that they can start doing business with the Iranian film industry, which is quite a mature industry in its own right.
This will most likely end up a net positive for Iran.
 
 
 
 
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keffler25       5/21/2015 12:07:58 PM
You haven't seen "The Final Countdown?"
 
There is your left-wing Hollywood disaster movie featuring the USS Nimitz. 
 
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joe6pack       5/21/2015 2:45:05 PM
I liked the Final Countdown..  F-14's vs Zeros.. good stuff..
 
I was unhappy with the ending.. I was looking for the Nimitz to take on the entire IJN 
 
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Nate Dog    I've seen it ;)   5/21/2015 7:53:40 PM
Remake anyone?
Only this time with Joe's happy ending of Zeros being plucked from the sky's by F-14 tomcats.
I wonder if anyone is still flying those dinosaurs.... Wait a minute!!
 
Seriously, hollywood will be all over this lifting of sanctions :)
 
 
 
 
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joe6pack       5/21/2015 9:10:06 PM
>Seriously, hollywood will be all over this lifting of sanctions :)
 
I'm sending Michael Bay an email about this right now!  Think of the explosions!  And we all know that Tom Cruise + F14 sells movie tickets! 
 
(Ok.. mostly.. I suppose I'd like him to go visit Iran.. maybe take J.J. Abrams with him!) 
 
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