Word: antiship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vincennes. The planes, built in the U.S. and sold to Iran in the 1970s during the reign of the Shah, are designed to fight other aircraft and are ordinarily equipped only with air-to-air, not ship-killing, missiles. The Pentagon retorts that Iran is known to have Harpoon antiship missiles and could have fired them; other experts doubt it. In any case, say some pilots, an F-14 trying to sink the Vincennes would probably have been flying much faster and much lower than the plane the Aegis system spotted. "No pilot in his right mind would attack...
...James Chandler could hardly have been plainer. If the Iranian patrol boat Joshan approached any closer to the U.S. guided-missile cruiser Wainwright, Chandler warned the Iranian craft by radio, "it is my intention to sink you." The Joshan's reply came quickly in the form of a deadly antiship missile. Chandler immediately ordered his crew to fire a hail of aluminum chaff into the air, which deflected the missile by confusing its radar guidance system. Moments later a second ship in the U.S. gulf convoy, the frigate Simpson, unleashed an SM-1 missile. It scored a direct hit, sinking...
...months the Reagan Administration has protested China's role as one of Iran's main arms suppliers, while Beijing has denied the allegation. Last week Administration officials said they have evidence that new Chinese arms shipments, including sophisticated C-801 antiship missiles, have arrived in Tehran since early October. More than 100 new Silkworm missiles, the type that were used in recent attacks on Kuwaiti shipping, are also said to be destined for Iran as part of two arms deals, one for $1.3 billion in 1983 and another for $600 million early last year...
Captain Glenn Brindel, 43, commander of the Stark since January 1985, knew that the gulf's serenity was often illusory. With mines concealed below, jet fighters screaming above and antiship missiles lurking onshore, sudden violence was an ever present danger. More than 200 vessels had been attacked in the gulf during the past three years. Earlier on this day, Iraqi jets had delivered missiles into a Cypriot tanker, leaving it dead in the water. The increasing threats to shipping in the vital region were precisely why the Stark was there, signaling U.S. determination to keep the oil lifelines open...
While the Reagan administration weighs options for protecting oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, China, in a potentially explosive move, has shipped a second delivery of Silkworm antiship missiles to Iran...