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It also looks fairly easy to mine/blockade outside of their territorial waters. You don’t need that many drones to make the whole area unusable for marine trans
by coffeebeqn 6mo ago
It also looks fairly easy to mine/blockade outside of their territorial waters. You don’t need that many drones to make the whole area unusable for marine transport. The strait is the clearest choke point but I don’t know how much bypassing it would help UAE
- lesuorac 6mo agoYou don't even need to hit that many ships either. Despite there being way less than 1 successful attack per week [1] travel through the Red Sea is down from ~500/week to ~200/week [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_attacks_on_commercial_vessels#Timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_attacks_on_commercial_v... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis#Houthi_attacks_on_commercial_vessels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis#Houthi_attacks_...
- IAmBroom 6mo agoPassing the strait is effectively playing Russian Roulette, where Iranian missiles are the bullets.