Word: boghammar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Militant rhetoric aside, many analysts concluded that immediate retaliation against the U.S. was unlikely. For one thing, the Iranians appear to lack the military capability to strike an effective blow at U.S. forces in the region. Though the Revolutionary Guards' Boghammar speedboats continue to threaten neutral shipping in the crowded gulf, any attempt to confront U.S. warships patrolling in the area would be suicidal. And sponsorship of new terrorist bombings or kidnapings would only turn international public opinion against Iran, taking much of the onus...
...above the water and peering at the boats through an infrared night-vision scope. He had no trouble identifying the small craft. The largest was a 150-ft.-long Corvette, a steel-hulled boat that could carry a crew of 140. There was a Swedish-built Boghammar boat, 42 ft. long, and two smaller 30-ft. vessels, dubbed Boston Whalers by U.S. seamen because of their similarity to the American fishing boats...
...over in moments. The Boghammar blazed, then sank from view. The two small boats flared too, then drifted. The Corvette sped off toward Farsi. Arriving in two Mark III Sea Specter patrol boats, Navy SEAL commandos rushed to pluck survivors out of the water. They found six Iranian sailors, but three were badly injured and two of them died after being taken to the U.S.S. Raleigh, some 70 miles southeast of the wreckage site. The two small boats were taken under tow. Just how many Iranians were killed in the attack was not known...
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