Re: We'll let you give us your ship...
"...the other would be sailing up and down the Persian Gulf in a pretence of frightening the Iranians".
Well, maybe, until a Russian corvette showed up in the Caspian Sea. At which point, Kalibr shock would set in and the carrier would take off for home like a startled rabbit - the way USS Theodore Roosevelt did when the Russians Kalibr'd those terrorists in Syria, and the Yanks suddenly realised the Gulf was also within easy range of the Caspian.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
