Iranian Revolutionary Guard Boats almost Sunk by U.S. Navy

In an incident described by Iranian officials as "ordinary" and the U.S. Navy describes as a "significant confrontation", Iranian Revolutionary Guard patrol boats almost got blown sky high.

Recently under patrol and searching for a missing sailor in the Arabian Sea a team of naval ships, USS Hopper (pictured), the USS Port Royal and the USS Ingraham, were entering the Persian Gulf through the international waters of the Straights of Hormuz when 5 IRG patrol boats made threatening moves & came within 200 yards our ships....

From CNN --

The U.S. Navy also received a radio transmission that officials believe came from the Iranian boats. The transmission said, "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes," the U.S. military officials told CNN.

When the U.S. ships heard that radio transmission, they took up their gun positions and officers were "in the process" of giving the order to fire when the Iranians abruptly turned away, the U.S. officials said. More....

The IRG Navy is responsible for the 2 week kidnapping of 15 crew members of a British ship claiming they were in Iranian waters. This seems to be like a little game of cat & mouse for these guys - Iran claims they could not identify our ships so they had to some closer.

I bet our sailors guys would love to play navy games with the IRG patrol, but sort of like when we were kids and our parents would tell us.... "all the fun & games are fine until someone pokes an eye out." But the IRG may not lose an eye; they just very well might be sunk the next time!