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To: RMF who wrote (47843)7/7/2013 9:23:18 AM
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The one ship wouldn't be an aircraft carrier. More likely a destroyer or perhaps an LCS. The aircraft carriers are well protected with escorting ships and aircraft to protect them, they don't go as far to the front, and they are bigger and so harder to sink.

Its not utterly impossible for Iran to sink one but its extremely unlikely. More likely (but still difficult for them) would be to damage one. If one were damaged, with the loss of say dozens of sailors, and its operations shut down for a time, that would be treated as a big deal. But it still wouldn't save the Iranian navy. If we did go after Iran it wouldn't be with just one carrier.
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