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" Rear Admiral John Gower, a former Royal Navy submarine commander, told the BBC earlier this month that it would take a more sophisticated force than the Houthis, someone with submersibles capable of locating the cables to do the deed. Someone like Iran.
"I assess it's a bluff, unless it's an attack on a terminal," Gower said.
"There is nothing I've seen in the Iranian [Order of Battle] that could touch these cables, certainly not their submarines," former Royal Navy Commander Tom Sharpe told the Beeb. While diving would be a possibility, Sharpe said he concurred with Gower that the threat was likely a bluff."
The location of cables is clearly shown on charts, as all mariners know. Ship's regularly damage cables when they drag an anchor.
Nd that pair ran RN ships?
"The USA as a whole managed it in around 1930," ROFL The USA still doesn't have real ' universal public education '. It has schools with no qualified teachers other than religious zealots.
"Not many places in West Virginia offer physics programmes in their high schools and those who do very few of them are taught by people actually trained in physics,"
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