For starters Our 5th Fleet is awesume. It has an outstanding firepower.
We would destroy Iran's navy with Ease.
The 5th Fleet cosists of.
Task Force 50, Battle Force ( Forward Deployed Carrier Strike Group)
Task Force 51, Amphibious Force (Expeditionary Strike Group)/Expeditionary Strike Group
Five/TF 59 (Manama, Bahrain)
Task Force 52, mining/demining force
Task Force 53, Logistics Force/Sealift Logistics Command Central, Military Sealift Command (MSC replenishment ships plus USN MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters and C-130 Hercules, C-9
Skytrain II and/or C-40 Clipper aircraft)
Task Force 54, (dual-hatted as Task Force 74) Submarine Force
Task Force 55, Operation Iraqi Freedom: Constellation Carrier Strike Force; June 2003: mine clearing force, including elements from the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program
Task Force 56, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command force.CTG 56.1 Explosive Ordnance Disposal / Expeditionary Diving and Salvage
CTG 56.2 Naval Construction Forces
CTG 56.3 Expeditionary Logistics Support; Provides logistics support for USN/USA/USMC,
cargo movement and customs throughout AOR
CTG 56.4 Riverine; Provides riverineprotection of waterways from illegal smuggling of weapons, drugs and people
CTG 56.5 Maritime Expeditionary Security; Provides anti-Terrorism/Force Protection of land/port/littoral waterway operations for USN and Coalition assets, as well as point defense of strategic platforms and MSC vessels
CTG 56.6 Expeditionary Combat Readiness; Provides administrative “Sailor support” for all Individual Augmentees, and administers the Navy Individual Augmentee Combat Training Course and Warrior Transition Program
Task Force 57, (dual-hatted as Task Force 72) Patrol and Reconnaissance Force (P-3 and EP-3 Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft)Task Group 57.1 - Lockheed EP-3, VQ-1
Task Group 57.2 - in October 2006, consisted of VP-8, VP-9, VP-16, and VP-46.
Note that as of October 13, 2011, Officer in Charge, Patrol and Reconnaissance Force Fifth
Fleet Det Bahrain (COMPATRECONFORFIFTHFLT DET BAHRAIN (44468)) has been modified to Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing FIVE SEVEN.
Task Force 58, Maritime Surveillance Force (Northern Persian Gulf)
Task Force 59, Expeditionary Force/Contingency Force Lebanon evacuation operation, in conjunction with Joint Task Force Lebanon)
Coalition Forces Maritime Component Command
Together with Naval Forces Central Command, Fifth Fleet oversees five naval task forces monitoring maritime activity:
Combined Task Force 158 in the North Persian Gulf that protects the Iraqi oil terminals of ABOT and KAAOT; now CTF IM
Combined Task Force 150 that patrols from Hormuz, halfway across the Arabia Sea, South as far as the Seychelles, through the Gulf of Aden, up through the strait between Djibouti and Yemen known as the Bab Al Mandeb and into the Red Sea and, finally, around the Horn of Africa;
Combined Task Force 152 patrols the Persian Gulf from the northern end where area of responsibility of CTF 158 ends and down to the Strait of Hormuz between Oman and Iran where the area of responsibility for CTF 150 begins;
CTF 151 patrols mostly the same area as CTF 150 but is primarily focused on deterring and disrupting Somalian pirate attack on leisure boats and commercial shipping;
CTF 52 (as above) patrols the same area as CTF 152 but is focused on countermining/demining activity.
Irans Navy
DIA assesses the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN) includes some 18,000
personnel. The IRIN is organized into four naval districts, which likely include submarine,
missile boat, patrol boat, and auxiliary units; naval aviation units and naval riflemen and
marine commando units. An additional 20,000 personnel comprise the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN), which also includes missile, torpedo, and small
patrol boat units, several anti-ship coastal defense missile batteries, and naval riflemen and
commando units
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