{"id":67828,"date":"2016-09-07T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67828"},"modified":"2016-09-06T17:59:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T21:59:30","slug":"iranians-harass-uss-firebolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67828","title":{"rendered":"Iranians harass USS Firebolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67829\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/USS-Firebolt-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"USS Firebolt\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/USS-Firebolt-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/USS-Firebolt-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/USS-Firebolt-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/USS-Firebolt.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/u-military-ship-changes-course-iran-vessel-interaction-153632363.html\">Reuters <\/a>reports that Iranian patrol craft spent some time buzzing the USS Firebolt in the Persian Gulf on Sunday. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the Iranian vessel sailed directly in front of the USS Firebolt, forcing the 174-foot (53-metre) U.S. ship to change course.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began when seven Iranian ships &#8220;harassed&#8221; the Firebolt, Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the interaction was &#8220;unsafe and unprofessional due to lack of communications and the close-range harassing maneuvering,&#8221; adding that uncovered and manned weapons were seen on the Iranian vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. ship tried to communicate with the Iranian ship by radio three times but received no response.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. official said there have been 31 similar interactions with Iranian ships this year, almost double the amount from the same period last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe John Kerry and James Taylor can straighten this all out. I&#8217;m sure all the mullahs need is a good old folk concert. I&#8217;m thinking that the Firebolt can handle themselves. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Firebolt\">Wiki<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her armament includes two Mk38 chain guns, two Mk19 automatic grenade launchers, and two .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, as well as six Stinger missiles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that Iranian patrol craft spent some time buzzing the USS Firebolt in the Persian &hellip; <a title=\"Iranians harass USS Firebolt\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67828\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iranians harass USS Firebolt<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}