The US Navy has the most powerful surface fleet on earth — yet it still refuses to escort a single oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. This video breaks down the physics of why escort is an illusion.
Three vectors of failure converge inside a 2-nautical-mile corridor: a 300,000-ton supertanker that cannot maneuver, radar shadows carved by mountains that blind the Aegis combat system, and a $500 limpet mine invisible to every sensor on a $2.5 billion destroyer. The same physics defeated the US Navy in 1988 — and they haven’t changed.
Timestamps:
0:00 The question 50 million people are asking wrong
1:27 USS Samuel B. Roberts: the escort that had to be rescued
3:07 Three vectors the destroyer was never built to survive
13:23 Survivable alone. Together — not.
15:38 The answer you carry with you
Credit to : Navy Decoded