The first entry of this comment was truncated. "Iranian Speedboats Blasted By Brimstone"   This title is grossly misleading. " On June 25th a British Tornado jet fighter fired a Brimstone missile at a fast moving small armed boat (of the type Iran favors) and hit the target."   The title says that an Iranian vessel was struck.   The opening sentence says that the vessel was of the type used by Iran but did not state that the vessel was an Iranian armed boat.   Was the boat manned at the time of the strike or was the boat a remotely controlled test boat?    Where did the incident occur?   What identifying markings did the boat have?     Time for a rewrite.

 

 

   Here's the text from Defenceworldnet:

 

      The Brimstone has already demonstrated its capabilities as the weapon of choice against a range of fixed and moving ground targets during operations in Afghanistan and Libya. 

The Mad Mullahs of Qom have been making all kinds of noise about the Islamic Republic gaining a blue-water naval capability. 

 

Might could be that the boat in question was a Quds Force attack element inbound with malign intent upon a target in Wales.

 

Don't want to get the Taffies all in a pull, right?

"fire and forget"

 

That phrase always makes me laugh.  Is there anyone in the world who flies a plane, shoots a missile, and then forgets that he shot a missile?  "Holy crap, that ship just blew up!  Oh yeah, I remember now.  I shot it with a missile, but forgot about it."