The Navy will deploy guided-missile destroyers, more than 100 land- and sea-based combat aircraft, and several sea and air drones to guide international commercial ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command officials said Sunday.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    Just last week some expert was saying that escorting ships is one option for US but that it will be super slow and definitely take some casualties on US side. I guess Trump didn’t read the same article.

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      How unexpected…

      Moving large naval targets into the range of enemy defenses despite having the technological advantage necessary to keep out of it must be another 5D chess move from the orange master mind.

      /edit: If it’s really true and not another pump and dump scheme for Oligarchy Brows Ltd.

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    Not “Epic” Freedom? The american propaganda crew is slipping. Maybe too many people thought that the “E.F.” in “Epic Fury” meant “Epstein Files”.

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    No they won’t. It’s just trump trying to manipulate the markets again.

    Also it won’t work. We have no operational mine clearing assets. The old ones were decommissioned and the new ones don’t work.

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    I wonder what Iran’s next move will be. Temporarily relax the blockade for outgoing ships but maintain it for incoming ships? As a means of deliberately wasting US resources, that is. So far they seemed to avoid head-to-head clashes with the US.

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      Control over the straight is one of the main reasons they’re still geopolitically relevant. I don’t see them giving it up for good, they will at least say that the blockade is still on. Given they have a lot of naval drones and missiles which are not 100% countered by US hardware, I don’t foresee any insurance companies co-signing on commercial ships crossing the straight.

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      They’re not going to re-open the strait though.

      They will burn billions trying to escort ships and Iran only needs to launch a $20k drone every few weeks.

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      Exactly.

      If Trump had just stayed inside the White House and let Vance run the country he’d have sailed into a second term.

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    This might get interesting. If the Ukraine was able to pretty much win the war at sea without a navy using drones, we will see how much of a nuisance Iran can be.

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      Ukraine. “The” is not needed. It would be like saying “the France” or “the Germany”.

      %100 this will not go well for the US ships.

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      I mostly agree, however the US can always move reserves to the area. Russias Black Sea fleet has been cut off from other parts of its navy because it cannot cross the Straight of Bosporus.