Das mit Atomantrieb betriebene U-Boot der Royal Navy erreicht das Arabische Meer – mit der Fähigkeit, Angriffe auf den Iran zu starten, wenn der Konflikt eskaliert

It’s starting to feel like we might be involved in this. 🙄

The usual clickbait „nuclear powered“ aside – how many Tomahawks does one of these carry, and how much difference will that really make?

The US firepower is immense, and has seemingly wiped out most of Iran’s main assets already. But there’s loads of hidden places along the (very long) coastline which can launch a combined thousands of drones to take out shipping in the Straits.

Seems nothing is really going to take out all of Iran’s capability unless someone nukes their entire coastline over and over, which would obviously be insane and hopefully never happens.

I dream of a day when the world properly distinguishes between SSN and SSBN in discourse and reporting.

tbf the Royal Navy could just park up by Cyprus and lob Cruise Missiles toward Iran. Most places there are still with in range. No real need to get too close.

Well, he’s threatening Greenland again now so maybe we have to show willing?

Can we not call this what it is? Trump, for his own vanity, has basically started a war that is repidly engulfing the world. Then he calls us cowards because we don’t want or need this illegal war. Trump needs to be removed from office, but getting JD Vance instead fills me with abject horror.

I have friends in Tehran, the Bekkaa valley, UAE. I do not support the UK getting involved. An end to this insanity will not come through force alone.

How many times must Iran attack us before we start to say mean things about them? I’m assuming mean things are the worst we can do, considering how harshly they are policed in the UK

To those complaining about economic warfare by the effect on supply lines and oil / gas prices:

Iran has been under immense economic warfare for over 47 years, crippling its economy, and nobody has ever lobbied meaningfully to reverse this.

Despite this, Iran has allowed for FREE transit through its territorial waters in the strait of Hormuz. In the Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Bosphorus Strait there are immense charges for passage. This is good-will on the part of Iran and just because you don’t like the country doesn’t mean it’s ok to exploit the kindness. They’re within their right to charge for its use which is likely their plan going forward.

Complaining about the closure and not complaining that an illegal war has been launched and started with the killing of 165+ school children is morally bankrupt.

Iran has negotiated with the US twice in the past nine months, and TWICE has been attacked in the middle of negotiations. This time energy infrastructure and mass attacks aiming to destroy the nation, this is existential for Iran.

Those of us in this part of the world are fed information to make us believe that 90 million people are hostage to a regime. The reality couldn’t be further from the truth, if that were true a revolution would have happened by now, instead millions are out in the streets every single night in support of their government – whether they like the system or not.

Finally – if you are pro UK involvement, and see it as a means to lowering prices, then I would say that’s a massive miscalculation and would expose UK assets in the region more than they already are.

FYI – I don’t buy any of the propaganda that Iran would strike European countries – what strategic benefit even is there for something like that?

It would be so much easier if everyone just declared war on Israel. This thing would be over bother morning.

Nuclear powered sub. Better than a paddle steamer I suppose!

Nuclear powered but is it nuclear carrying?

I feel the headline makes more threat than the actual submarine being in the region.