The US Navy is fighting an enemy in Hormuz that cannot be negotiated with. Iran deployed thousands of naval mines to choke the world’s most critical oil chokepoint before the ceasefire. They threw them into the water in such a rush from fast boats that they did not record the GPS coordinates. Now Iran itself cannot find the weapon it deployed.
The ceasefire was signed in Islamabad. The war is officially over. But the US Navy is now stuck crawling at three knots in $2 billion Arleigh Burke destroyers to hunt fiberglass mines that don’t respond to politics. This video explains the physics of the clearance operation that keeps running its own timeline after the headlines stop.
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Timestamps:
0:00 A $2.2 billion destroyer crawling at walking speed. This is why.
1:46 Iran threw mines overboard so fast, they forgot to save the coordinates.
3:52 Fiberglass casings. No magnetic signature. Invisible to every sensor but one.
6:20 The US retired its only mine-clearing ships six months too early.
9:07 One pass finds 70%. The second pass finds some more. Zero passes find all.
12:24 The mine has no radio. No chain of command. No concept of “ceasefire.”
14:07 Who decides when Hormuz reopens? Not the Pentagon. Not Tehran.
Credit to : Navy Decoded