Iran building a fake aircraft carrier?

[T@T]

Are these nuts for real?

Commercial satellite images obtained by CNN reveal that Iran is constructing a large-scale replica of a U.S. military aircraft carrier, complete with fake U.S-style airplanes, near the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.

The mock supercarrier seems to have been modeled off of an American Nimitz-class (CVN 68) carrier, down to the number "68" painted on the flight deck, though its intended use remains a mystery.
According to one U.S. official, the mock-up is more akin to a Hollywood set than an actual warship.

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2014/0...ier/?hpt=hp_t2

[Zulu29]

Idiots...

[Nehkara]

Yeah I read about this the other day.

The US wanted to bring this to the attention of the media because they believe it is likely that Iran will shoot a propaganda video of them "blowing up a US carrier".

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by T@T

Are these nuts for real?





http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2014/0...ier/?hpt=hp_t2

Do not read the comments on that article.

[Ironhorse]

Google maps location here: presumably earlier this year.

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/27%...s0x0:0x0?hl=en

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Do not read the comments on that article.

Unfortunately your post drove me to actually read them.

Now my brain is melting. I wish I had listened to you.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Do not read the comments on that article.

Thanks for fueling my interest

this one sums it up

I hear that Revell plastic model kits of the USS Nimitz are also available in Iran. This is a national security crisis – time to shoot down another Iranian passenger jet.

[CaptainCrunch]

Either for propaganda use, or their going to use it as a training tool to either storm it (stupid carriers have at least a company of marines to act as security) or they're testing their newer antiship missiles.

Its a weird thing to do tho

[CaptainCrunch]

Looks like they put a thermal exhaust port right below the main port.

[Bigtime]

Didn't the Chinese do this too?

[CaramonLS]

I would say that CNN needs at least a 1 hour segment each day to talk about all their website comments. That said, it would probably encourage the trolls even more.

I just don't understand article commenters.

[Locke]

[WilsonFourTwo]

Originally Posted by Nehkara

Yeah I read about this the other day.

The US wanted to bring this to the attention of the media because they believe it is likely that Iran will shoot a propaganda video of them "blowing up a US carrier".

That's a pretty amazing investment for some propaganda. It's bat-5h1t crazy, but I almost kind of admire that level of commitment, if true.

All I can think of is how much great stuff the Iranian Government could do for its people with the money/resources going into that project. On the flip side, I suppose it's less money/resources that can be funneled into extremist groups.

[SeeBass]

Maverick its time to "buzz the tower'

[stang]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Didn't the Chinese do this too?

They copy everything though....

[sureLoss]

Maybe the Iranians got duped on craigslist.

[RougeUnderoos]

I went ahead and read some of the comments on that article and yeah, that's always a bad idea. One comment actually led me to this...

http://isna.ir/en/news/92041207490/I...1988-US-attack

Which is a story about how it's a prop for a movie about that passenger jet that was shot down by the US Navy in 1988, killing 290 local crazies, including 66 of the craziest children money could buy (in 1988 dollars).

Apparently Val Kilmer is attached to the project. Val Kilmer most famously played hippie-dippie hearthrob and notorious pinko-weinerwagging Jim Morrison in the 1991 beatnik film "The Doors".

Follow that rabbit-hole a little further and you'll learn that Jim Morrison's father was an Admiral in that very same US Navy, and was actually calling the shots in the Gulf of Tonkin on a fateful summer day in 1964.

Now, almost exactly 50 years later, and about 4000 miles the the northwest, the chickens are coming home to roost in a plywood aircraft carrier that threatens not only the stability of the world, but the future of humanity.

Buckle up.

[jeffman]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Didn't the Chinese do this too?

Its an amusement park