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April 18, 2006
Today's Lesson in the Use of High Explosives
![Sabalan.jpg](http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Sabalan.jpg)
This was the Iranian frigate Sahand, destroyed eighteen years ago today by the United States Navy in Operation Praying Mantis, a battle that decisively established the superiority of the Navy in the Persian Gulf. We have been at war, to varying degrees of overtness and intensity, with Iran for a long time now, as Mark Steyn reminded us.
This is merely today's reminder.
(Picture borrowed from here)
![digg this](http://ace.mu.nu/images/digg-this.png)
posted by Harry Callahan at
08:53 PM
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