1. catdynamics
  2. Reagan is going home

Reagan is going home

By catdynamics on April 13, 2007.

USS Reagan is headed home

Pulled into Pearl Harbour this week.
The Y Ranter calls non-war this new moon

Alex at FoE tells us what you need to bomb Iran

Counting is a very powerful approach to reality.

New moon is April 17th, the US Air Force's main advantage against a foe like Iran is stealth.
Best time to strike is late night/early morning.
So, all things being equal, the few days right after new moon are their time - otherwise those expensive stealth planes risk being silhouetted against a waning moon.

To do the sort of strike that is being bandied about, requires serious assembly of aircraft carriers, and if the Reagan had stayed out west at the same time the Nimitz headed out while Stennis and EIsenhower are there, it would have been curious.
Good to know the Reagan is headed back, and I hope the EIsenhower heads home later this month also. Both need a good long rest in port.

Tags
Random

More like this

Iran strike speculations
Lots of news and speculation on possible steps to mobilization by US forces to position for a strike on Iran. They couldn't be that stupid, could they? Old Speculation Updated. So... in my humble and uninformed opinion, if the US were to launch a air strike on Iran, supported by Navy aircraft and…
"Life goes on as it did before..."
"...As the country drifts slowly to war" Update: Why do I keep hammering on the "paranoid Iran scenario"? Because I am worried that the decision to "take out" Iran has been made in DC, and that it is now merely a question of when, and with what rationale. There are two considerations: one is next…
on the impossibility of war
the US can not afford to start another war, it does not have the forces or the finance so... clearly it is time to contemplate stupidest possible scenarios... A lot of interesting little things have happened in the world. Russia is moving fleet units to Venezuela, Syria and Somalia. Venezuela…
game on?
So the USS Nimitz leaves San Diego on monday with its strike group, destination Arabian Sea For those of us obsessively tracking these things, that is a bad sign - the Stennis and Eisenhower are already in the region, which makes three, the amateur minimum for a serious naval air campaign against…