Jefferson and the Barbary wars? I think not.
“The Noor (Persian: نور) is a long-range anti-ship cruise missile manufactured by Iran. The missile is in primary service with the Iranian Navy. The missile is a reverse engineered Chinese C-802 anti-ship missile.”
“The missile is powered by Toloue-4, an Iranian version of the French Microturbo TRI 60 engine.”
“In January 2004, Iran announced that it has started manufacturing the DM-3B mono pulse radar for the Noor missile. According to Iranian officials, DM-3B is a millimeter-wave active radar used in the last stage of missile flight to find the target and home-in the missile on it. Because of its frequency, it is very hard to jam the radar, which is located inside the nosecone.”
“In early 2012, during Velayete-90 wargames, a Noor missile was tested with improvements in electronic systems, a more jam-resistant radar and better target acquisition algorithms.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_(missile)
JFK-style PT boats with torpedoes are a possibility.
Suez Canal revenue is important to Egypt.
We should be taking out any/all Houthi military targets.
Somebody explain how our helicopter crews only took out 3 of the 4 attack boats?
(Hint: Somebody called off the pursuit.)
We should be hitting meaningful targets INSIDE Iran!
This crap about not wanting to expand the conflict is nonsense!
Look how easily a rag tag militia was able to shut down shipping in the Red Sea. The Houthis are an Iranian proxy and there’s concern that if the US responds with a full military assault on them the war will expand to a regional conflict directly involving Iran. Should that occur it’s expected that Iran may decide to shut down the Persian Gulf which would be catastrophic to the world economy so we are hoping to avoid that scenario, thus our somewhat muted response so far against the Houthis. It’s a very complicated situation.
Every container ship diverted from the Red Sea passage has to take the longer route around the Cape, which means the containers are slower to go back into circulation, driving the price of a container higher.
As the cost of a container goes up, so does the price companies have to pay to ship their goods, followed by higher prices the end consumer has to pay - worldwide. As the prices rice for goods, inflation follows.
Didn't the Chinese start a 'panama canal' through Nicaragua at some point in the past?