‘Project Freedom’: U.S. military to free blockaded commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz (dawnnewsup.com)
from Naptali@piefed.world to world@lemmy.world on 04 May 09:25
https://piefed.world/c/world/p/1082767/project-freedom-u-s-military-to-free-blockaded-commercial-ships-in-the-strait-of-hormuz

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.

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datendefekt@feddit.org on 04 May 09:47 next collapse

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.

einkorn@feddit.org on 04 May 10:03 collapse

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.

SpontaneousCombustion@lemmy.world on 04 May 10:01 next collapse

This should be called “Operation give-us-what-we-had-before-the-war”

Spending billions to get what you had.

Stable genius.

DagwoodIII@piefed.social on 04 May 11:25 collapse

Exactly.

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

_wizard@lemmy.world on 04 May 11:45 collapse

Fuck that thinking sir. That’d be an illegal third term.

inari@piefed.zip on 04 May 11:09 next collapse

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.

balsoft@lemmy.ml on 04 May 11:55 collapse

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.

rayyy@piefed.social on 04 May 11:49 next collapse

Iran, on the other hand, has lots of drones left.

bitteroldcoot@piefed.social on 04 May 11:56 next collapse

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.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 04 May 12:09 next collapse

Project Freedom

Wow, so creative.

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