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SWBTATTReg

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2. I kind of laughed at this a little bit, in that I thought oil tankers were double-sided (two ...

Reply to pangaia (Original post)

Sun Jun 16, 2019, 07:27 PM

Jun 2019

sides) so simply just attaching a limpet mine or the like explosive wouldn't do the trick more than likely. I'd (IMHO) thought that it would take more explosives than what two men in a boat could carry...these oil tankers/craft are gigantic in size, and like I said, some are double sided. Besides, wouldn't Iran be scaring off their own tankers for their own use/oil deliveries? Why drive up the price of shipments (insurance etc.), that would impact Iran too? These stories of Iran attacking tankers seems thin at best, and irresponsible at worse, if the rump admin. is stroking the fires for war based on false pretenses...

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I kind of laughed at this a little bit, in that I thought oil tankers were double-sided (two ... SWBTATTReg Jun 2019 #2

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