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| Trump: U.S. Is Destroying Iranian Mine Layers With Same Weapon Used Against Caribbean Narco Boats |
| 2026-07-09 |
| [BB] U.S. President Donald Trump’s final public remarks at the NATO summit that finished Wednesday night in Ankara, Turkey, was on the resumption of hostilities with Iran, which as relayed by the President had cynically broken the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding and attacked civilian shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Noting the U.S. military was reacting by striking what remains of Iran’s military equipment, President Trump related that large numbers of small Iranian attack craft were being swatted away. Iran had a certain quantity of conventional military assets at the beginning of Operation Epic Fury including warships and aircraft, but these were quickly destroyed in the first days of the conflict, leaving Iran’s considerable stockpile of small, unconventional, or asymmetric-warfare systems. Easily hidden underground and reactivated at short notice, this has included Iran’s considerable magazine-depth of missiles but also speedboat-size small craft. These attack boats, known as Iran’s “mosquito fleet”, are intended to cause havoc in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf by launching suicide bombing attacks — like manned versions of Ukraine’s one way attack drone boats — or by carrying Chinese-made canisterised anti-ship missiles, or by laying sea mines. Otherwise unarmed, unarmoured, and without electronic countermeasures they are extremely vulnerable to air attack and rely on their numbers for effect. |
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| Posted by: Frank G 2026-07-09 14:36 |