{"id":158652,"date":"2024-07-08T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=158652"},"modified":"2024-07-07T18:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T22:24:33","slug":"pride-of-irans-navy-in-the-news-news-from-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=158652","title":{"rendered":"Pride of Iran’s Navy in the news\/ News from Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yep, remember not long back Iran was bragging about becoming a real blue-water navy? Going to conduct operations around the world, but most especially in our back yard. Yeah, they’re gonna show us. They’re gonna show us.<\/p>\n

Well, they showed us:<\/p>\n

Iranian naval destroyer has sunk while it was being repaired in a port near the Strait of Hormuz, state media reported Sunday.<\/p>\n

State-run IRNA news agency reported that the Sahand destroyer, being repaired at a wharf lost its balance due to water infiltration into the tanks.<\/p>\n

The agency added that due to the low depth in the waters, it is possible to bring back the destroyer to balance.<\/p>\n

Sahand, named after a mountain in northern Iran, took six years to build and launched into the Persian Gulf in December 2018. The 1,300-ton vessel was equipped with surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft batteries and sophisticated radar and radar-evading capabilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can evade radar but not someone flooding the bilges?<\/p>\n

You wouldn’t think it that easy to capsize your own ship at dock. This isn’t the first, by the way.<\/p>\n

In January 2018, a naval destroyer, Damavand, sank in the Caspian Sea after crashing into a breakwater. AP<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe they forgot to install that breakwater-evading radar.<\/p>\n

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Then we get to Mars. As you know, Earth and Mars have different orbits and different orbital periods, so the distance between is variable. Although the closest they theoretically can get is 33,000,000 miles, in reality this is very rare and the best they’ve done in the last 50,000 years was in 2003 when we were only 33,900,000 miles apart. Safe to say, though, it’s a trip.<\/p>\n

But, human nature’s monkey-curiosity about everywhere else has us trying to explore Mars, just because they are our closest planetary neighbor. We’ve even flown helicopter-like drones there, notably the Mars Expedition\u00a0 Ingenuity a while back.\u00a0 Flying an Earth craft in another planet’s skies…makes all those battlefield drones seem kind of, well, insignificant.<\/p>\n

But Ingenuity’s life span was short. Three years, and it was done – bent in a one-meter crash. It managed 72 flights, though, which is ‘way cool. The amazing part – the current Mars rover found Ingenuity’s wreckage on Mars.<\/p>\n

Over 34,000,000, miles away at best. Call that roughly 130 times as far away as the Moon is from us.\u00a0 And they found it. Utterly amazing.<\/p>\n

Heck, there’s times I take a couple of tries just to find my car at WalMart.<\/p>\n

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