the iranian naval fleet before porn-boards, IR stood for international relations, which is mostly about diplomatically killing those you dislike. let me help you understand some things better.


take a look at the range of the 154-missiles an ohio class sub carries. hitting any country in the middle-east is cake from the red sea, med, etc.

the persian gulf is a littoral operation, you don't put boomers in there because you don't need to--iran's got TWO submarines and sonar-tech two decades behind the hull-deadening stuff on our little fast subs that can still launch dozens of missiles and sink whatever it wants.

do you know what a thermocline is? look it up. the persian gulfs shallows and currents actually mean that it's MORE difficult to detect submarines with passive sonar. you REALLY want to use passive sonar instead of active.

basically, the ohios can lob thousands of missiles from total safety while an antiquated navy has no answer to lots of small subs with a bunch of missiles,torpedos and the ability to launch seal teams while underwater. they'll have to throw done mines which'll get swept fast. failing to localize and target stuff until it hits the inner ring(like a dozen or less miles) is a disaster, and you still want aircraft to do it, but you don't have enough of them and the skies are full of hostile and superior planes. so you're looking at dropping a bunch of VDS units into the water and blindly pinging around because their accuracy goes to shit in turbulent,coastal water and you have to use less-effective, very short-range stuff from your warships.
not pretty.


sub crashes? these days it's mostly china, russia, and banana-republics involved with aging boats or our cheapies with inexperienced crews, not ohios and la's.