You can certainly use limpet mines. But, if the Iranians are already essentially providing a naval escort for the ships, wouldn’t it be reasonable to presume they are also defending against a swimmer attack while at anchor as well?
Actually, what I was thinking of was a multi-jet strike using Harpoons (or some equivalent standoff weapon). Like I said in my original post, there is no doubt Israel could deliver a successful attack. There is just this pesky issue of it being an obvious and very overt act of war (because you will have to strike the Iranian escorts to neutralize their AA defences in order to get through to the cargo ship).
You can certainly use limpet mines. But, if the Iranians are already essentially providing a naval escort for the ships, wouldn’t it be reasonable to presume they are also defending against a swimmer attack while at anchor as well?
Actually, what I was thinking of was a multi-jet strike using Harpoons (or some equivalent standoff weapon). Like I said in my original post, there is no doubt Israel could deliver a successful attack. There is just this pesky issue of it being an obvious and very overt act of war (because you will have to strike the Iranian escorts to neutralize their AA defences in order to get through to the cargo ship).