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Iranian warship hit by US torpedo did not carry ammunition, say Indian sources
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Uhhh, don’t load it with munitions?
why and how would a civilian crew man a war ship? I've never heard of that unless the ship was retired? what flags were hoisted?
I served for a number of years and parades or weekends or not, we still had to pretend sadam hussein was gonna scud us.
out of the years, other than maybe dry docked, there were probably 0 times we were defenseless.
update woops forgot about the 1 time when fire cut off power I guess...
still we would have gone down with a fight.
Why not? If it’s just being demoed off, why would it need a full military crew? Explain, balls in your court mate.
Also just a short few google searches brought me to This, sounds like it’s not uncommon to have civilian crews to man warships. What if it’s just being moved for service? Need to get a full military crew and load it up with munitions? Fucking lol, as if.
Just because you served, doesn’t mean you know absolutely everything about how the navy/military operates. That’s just an asinine view lmfao.
if it's being demoed it wouldn't be flying any flags. it wasn't being demoed though, it supposedly just participated in an Indian exercise or were there by invite.
out of ammunition for a warship and being piloted by civilians, and just partipated in a multinational exercise?
what?
link is fine, contractors and groups are on ships all the time. not my point. point there would be if it's piloted /commanded by civilians, it wouldn't be considered an unarmed Iranian warship anymore. it would just be a civilian vessel.
i don't know everything nor do I wanna know. but I know if ships are sailing waters with comms live, with markings and flags flying what the US deems adversary, especially lately, well they're military targets.
it's a bad move on the US though but given the shit show lately, it seems to be ...on par.