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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsrael has a Navy
The Israeli Navy has:
7 corvettes (Sa'ar 5 class, Sa'ar 6 class)
8 missile boats (Sa'ar 4.5 class)
5 submarines (Dolphin class)
45 patrol boats
4 support ships
9,500 active
10,000 reserve
Why didn't Trump ask them for help with keeping open the Straits of Hormuz?
SocialDemocrat61
(7,533 posts)Not really in a position to help
LakeVermilion
(1,568 posts)Just sayin'.
StoolPigeon
(250 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(7,533 posts)BeyondGeography
(41,061 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(7,533 posts)their navys are stationed.
ChicagoTeamster
(880 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(7,533 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(880 posts)That treaty allowed for cooperation over terrorism in the Sinai, Israel allowed natural gas pipeline to transit to Egypt (they recently shut it off) and Egypt allowed for transit of Israeli goods to Europe. So, they should have had no problem if they coordinated first. The US sends battleships and carrier groups through.
melm00se
(5,155 posts)The Constantinople Convention, which states:
grants Israel (and any country for that matter) unfettered passage thru the canal.
This treaty has not always been a free pass as Egypt did block access during the Six Day War and the October War.
cab67
(3,729 posts)assuming they can still pass through the Suez Canal.
ananda
(35,033 posts)He knows it's a futile, self-destructive task, so...
ask NATO (which he hates)>
Prairie Gates
(8,050 posts)They also would have trouble opening passage for oil tankers rather than closing passage for food aid.
They're not really suited to the task.
David__77
(24,607 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,225 posts)Besides, thats why Israel employed Donald and the Pentagon.
NoMoreRepugs
(12,015 posts)twodogsbarking
(18,584 posts)Bev54
(13,416 posts)Anybody seen Bibi? And I dont mean the AI videos
peppertree
(23,293 posts)In line between Hitler and the two former Ayatollahs.
With Ceaușescu as the barista and Stalin at the cash register (so you know it'll be a while).
Exact change - or...."no coffee for you!"
GiqueCee
(4,084 posts)... but Bibi told him to pound sand; he'd gotten the fool to start the war, then cut him loose. Netanyahu, like Trump, is loyal to no one but himself.
Sogo
(7,175 posts)nt
Dan
(5,139 posts)LiberalArkie
(19,734 posts)EX500rider
(12,526 posts)On the other hand pretty well armed for that size.
The Sa'ar 6 has a displacement of almost 1,900 tons at full load and is 90 m (295 ft 3 in) long. It is armed with an Oto Melara 76 mm main gun, two Typhoon Weapon Stations, 32 vertical launch cells for Barak-8 surface-to-air missiles, 40 cells for the C-Dome point defense system, 16 anti-ship missiles Gabriel V,[12][13] the EL/M-2248 MF-STAR AESA radar, and two 324 mm (12.8 in) torpedo launchers. It has hangar space and a platform able to accommodate a medium class SH-60-type helicopter.
Lack of a point defense CIWS might be a issue in a swarm attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%27ar_6-class_corvette
