The Pentagon is considering a more robust naval presence in the Middle East to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as gas and oil prices continue to rise, but any operation won’t commence for at least a month, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal, citing two U.S. officials, has said that the U.S. wants to reduce the threat from Iran before undertaking any escort operation, but that could take up to a month or more to accomplish, even as officials continue to downplay concerns over the strait and the impact its closure has had on global energy markets.
I saw a documentary talking about a Destroyers layered defenses but those layers become less effective when threats are closer and that straight is pretty darn narrow. Maybe they will be fine but wow is it a risk.
iran only needs to target the tankers, enough to maybe cause the companies to not sail any tankers into the strait.
What we’re seeing from the conflict right now is that it’s always a risk. No matter how good your defences are, reality stubbornly refuses to conform to what you mathed out in a simulator. And Iran has paid attention to the lessons of the Ukraine war; a mass of cheap munitions is the most effective way to overwhelm a very expensive air defence system. The US is still stuck in the mindset of expecting their enemies to use the biggest, baddest, most expensive weapon possible.