CENTCOM using underwater drones to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz

I think the idea is to put pressure on China and India to help, their ships were still getting through albeit in smaller amounts. Yeah, Trump screwed up big time! He does not want to put boots on the ground but also doesn't want Iran to have control of the strait. He is stuck, and keeps trying to rope the rest of the world in.

Elsewhere I'm seeing that it's just the ships paying the Iranian toll that will be seized. That would give at least the illusion of a legal basis since the the toll is definitely a sanctions violation. That would also sidestep the problems you mentioned as well. I don't think the goal of that would be to traditional economic starvation, instead just discouraging ships 'playing it safe' by handing Iran money. The (weird) status quo of iranian oil tankers being allowed to freely come and go would continue. Trump is such a f****** incompetent communicator, who knows what the actual implementation will be though. If there will be an implementation at all.

The blockade is for anyone paying a toll. And Iran claims they mined their southern neighbors shores so that the only safe passage is by going near Iranian shores and paying the toll. The US is simultaneously not allowing anyone to use the Iranian toll and also working on opening up a viable alternative It goes hand in hand and is the only logical policy to follow to stop Iran from establishing a toll.

Hell, we did a full embargo on Cuba and that just taught them how to make immortal 1950s Chevys.

Blockades are not a quick tool to victory, they take months or years before the effects exert enough pressure to lead to something. It depends on the country. For Iran, it is literally at war and oil makes up 85% of its national revenue. Remove that and immediately it goes full Venezuela and Zimbabwe all at once. It means being unable to pay IRGC officials. It means being unable to rebuild all the infrastructure the US and Israel have bombed out, some of which is absolutely essential for the day-to-day running of the country. Like their petrochemical sector is basically gone, most of their cement and steel factories are gone too. To build anything they need oil money first of all to pay for the rebuilding of the basics of the economy that have been taken out. Cuba was able to hold out because until 1991, it has the USSR infusing it with cash and propping up its economy. China and Russia are definitely not going to do that. After 1991, Cuba collapsed and collapsed BAD. But still, it had a small but diversified economy and the embargo applied only to the US. It could in theory trade with the rest of the world, only that it was difficult to do so because the world relies on US systems so much. Iran has no such access save for its attempts at smuggling its oil via Iraq and Syria(that is a whole essay in of itself but a major crackdown has been happening to circumvent this). With them also having bombed the one nation that was laundering their money (the UAE). Iran will see almost immediate inflation. I wonder if the goal is to force the people to become so angry and hungry that they do a Dutch and eat the IRGC or something.

It’s easy to understand, Iran wasn’t completely blocking the Strait it was selectively blocking certain ships from going through while letting Chinese, Indian and others ships go through. So the US tried to end the conflict and open the strait but to no avail, so they said “F*** it, if some ships aren’t allowed to pass so no ship is allowed to pass, we are in this together!”. That way the countries that are allied with Iran and had seen their oil pass through the strait are going to be pressured to talk down Iran and force the complete reopening of the strait.

> It's funny we're talking about demining still after the US blockade announcement. Why? Part of Iran's cards was that they could agree to remove their mines BUT they can't, because they lost track of them.

I think you're greatly overestimating the position Iran is in currently.

Iran’s only real form of income right now is oil and pretty soon they won’t be able to sell it. It’s not going to take years but weeks before the cheques stop going to Iranian soldiers.

He’s just emotionally responding.

he just trying to get the real steak hold to send their own war ship to the strait either by escrowing it just station there so there is no way for Iran to selectively attack ships not to mention mining the strait.

This is in reference to the Avenger class minesweepers. They were very old, and the new class of minesweeper that replaces them has much more advanced technology. This is why the four Avenger class that were in the gulf earlier this year left to be decommissioned.

And Project Maven was identifying trees for people, rocks for buildings, and clouds in the sky as school busses, yet is now directly involved in full blown military missions all within in the same time frame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Maven https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/nx-s1-5757478/inside-a-secret-pentagon-effort-to-bring-ai-to-the-battlefield

2019 was 7 years ago buddy

Yeah but if they can keep clearing mines faster than Iran can lay them, that changes the equation. It's not just about one tanker, it's about who controls the waterway day to day.

2 can play that game. Maybe countries should just start dropping mines in every international channel? China wouldn’t mind if we mined the Taiwan strait right? I mean the world is letting Iran do it with abject terror tactics and even cheering them on, so why shouldn’t others? People don’t seriously think this makes Iran strong right? If you’re so desperate that you mine international waters, you’re incredibly weak *and* you know it.

When Iran starts attacking ships during the ceasefire, the bombing will resume.

The U.S. is insulated but oil trades on the global market especially as refineries need different blends. Already reported that some U.S. oil has been sold to Asia..

The world needs the strait opened more than the US.

I received a different memo. Mine said the Strait of Hormuz would open back up “naturally.”

U.S entire economic hegemony is built upon a system called Petrodollar. This system allowed U.S to basically print infinite money. The moment that collapse, U.S in less than a Year crumble on it's own debt, because if U.S attempts to Print Money, countries will just buy all the gold. That is why U.S has so much interest in the region.

Go play subnautica to get an idea.

you’re acting like they’re just randomly wandering around hoping to bump into mines. they will use sonar mapping data and search around the usual shipping lanes.

Did you read the article. Drones don't go around blindly hitting random stuff to check if its a mine. Sonar and laser sweeps of the detect anomalies and then direct the drones to check if they are mines. That way mass areas are quickly covered. The drones aren't searching anything by sight/touch. >They were replaced by the USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) and USS Canberra (LCS-30), which carried MCM packages that include MH-60S helicopters and an MCM unmanned service vehicle that tows the AQS-20 sonars, which can detect sea mines, and Unmanned Influence Sweep Systems, which neutralize sea mines by detonating them. >According to USNI, “From the embarked MH-60, the AN/AES-1 Airborne Laser Mine Detection System uses lasers to detect mines closer to the surface. Once detected, the helicopter can deploy the AN/ASQ-235 Airborne Mine Neutralization System that lowers a torpedo-sized tube that carries expendable destructor vehicles to neutralize a mine.” >Another system is the AN/WSQ-46 Barracuda Mine Neutralization System, which can detonate near-surface mines.

Completely clueless about how it works, but you got your buzzwords in. Good job comrade.

You underestimate the US' sonar abilities with AQS-24C

Hear me out; Big net overhead Big net underwater

It’s not about opening it up. It’s about shutting it down for Iran too since they insist on shutting it down for 99% of the world. It’s a critical part of their economy. Iran has invested billions in its Persian gulf infrastructure, it is now totally useless. People acting like the only economy that benefits from the strait is the United States, and we don’t even import any oil from that gulf lmao. We have an enormous surplus of domestic oil Iran is f****** itself and their Islamic neighbors. The world will move on without them. UAE and Saudis still have access to international waters. The Arab states will collaborate to circumvent the problem. Iran is now effectively landlocked and cut from the global economy. Their biggest and only industry is dead. All of this effort blowing up civilian ships and committing enormous international war crimes while the world watched was for nothing.

Incredible lack of knowledge about mine clearing. Thank you for that, it was truly impressive.

What do you mean rockets?

Sea mines cost much more than 30k and r&d is included in the overall price so each unit will be substantially cheaper in production. Continue with your bleeding dry broken record and be on the wrong side of history like the communists.

> The Islamic Republic has no chance. It's fighting against a superpower. I seem to recall people saying the exact same thing about the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese, and the Taliban... How'd those go for the "superpower"?

This is probably the kind of bullshit Trump has been told before this endeavor

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