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Revolutionary Guard say Strait of Hormuz is “closed”
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Monday the Strait of Hormuz is now “closed” and threatened to attack any vessel attempting to transit, in the most explicit warning yet against the Gulf’s main maritime chokepoint. A Guards commander said they would set any ship “ablaze” if it tried to pass, according to remarks carried by Reuters. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe Iranians made the same threat some 41 years ago (and have since). I was deployed to Khasab on the Musandam Peninsula in 1985, with four Russian-built 130 mm guns. My orders were to deny landings on Omani territory. A big ask for a young man, tense times and it was as hot as hell.
Mar 03rd, 2026 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Three days later, an American Carrier group dailed majestically into the Arabian Gulf, defying the threat and ensuring swift and effective retaliation if this international sea lane was closed.
It worked then and will no doubt work now. However, the swarm threat, to counter U.S. technological advantage, is worrying.
Long range sniper then.
Mar 03rd, 2026 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They keep carrier battle groups way out to sea these days, swarm is increasingly what it’s all about now, particularly when dealing with Iranians who have long practiced ‘a symmetric warfare’.
In Ukraine now they have first world war style front lines replete with trenches and dug outs, with a no-man’s-land between patrolled by swarms of drones. No more sweeping armoured offensives when £5m tanks can be knocked out by £500 drones and there are swarms of them.
The big push now in the defence industry is to develop a cost effective ‘drone killing’ system.
Whoever does will be selling as many as they can make.
The Epstein Coalition is getting a beating from the free world. There are no more Epstein bases in the Middle East. And there never will be again!
Mar 03rd, 2026 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Good drugs, Brasso? Or bad...? ;)
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