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Originally Posted by Feanor
What if you sent a large, and loud, seeboat fleet from one side, at night, and from another side quietly sent a few non-radar reflecting quiet-engine craft in? Would that be a more feasible scenario?
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That's assuming the USN ships are all looking in the same direction. And there zero aerial assets backing up the task force.
Remember, if we can think of it here, the USN has probably already thought of it as well.
Which is not to say that human error can't make a scenario possible, but training and doctrine reduce the chances of it happening.
Small gunboats are ultimately limited in what they can do it an underway modern multi-ship task force that knows full well that it's standing into danger (the Persian Gulf) and is therefore undoubtably prepared and armed to the teeth.