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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4105042" data-attributes="member: 48469">We have done limited strikes before. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis" target="_blank">Operation Praying Mantis - Wikipedia</a>&quot;Operation Praying Mantis was an attack on 18 April 1988, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" target="_blank">U.S. forces</a> within Iranian territorial waters in retaliation for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" target="_blank">Iranian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_mine" target="_blank">mining</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf" target="_blank">Persian Gulf</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" target="_blank">Iran–Iraq War</a> and the subsequent damage to an American warship.&quot;&quot;By the end of the operation, American Marines, ships and aircraft had destroyed Iranian naval and intelligence facilities on two inoperable oil platforms in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf" target="_blank">Persian Gulf</a>, and sank at least three armed Iranian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedboat" target="_blank">speedboats</a>, one Iranian frigate and one fast attack gunboat. One other Iranian frigate was damaged in the battle.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4105042, member: 48469"] We have done limited strikes before. [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis"]Operation Praying Mantis - Wikipedia[/URL] "[B]Operation Praying Mantis[/B] was an attack on 18 April 1988, by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces']U.S. forces[/URL] within Iranian territorial waters in retaliation for the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran']Iranian[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_mine']mining[/URL] of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf']Persian Gulf[/URL] during the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War']Iran–Iraq War[/URL] and the subsequent damage to an American warship." "By the end of the operation, American Marines, ships and aircraft had destroyed Iranian naval and intelligence facilities on two inoperable oil platforms in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf']Persian Gulf[/URL], and sank at least three armed Iranian [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedboat']speedboats[/URL], one Iranian frigate and one fast attack gunboat. One other Iranian frigate was damaged in the battle." [/QUOTE]

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