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Posted on 07/10/2026 3:46:50 AM PDT by dennisw
President Trump noted the weapons being used against the small boats are “the same exact missile” as those being used against narco boats attempting to smuggle drugs north to the United States from South America. While the President didn’t specific which missile that is, the chances are good it is either the old Cold War stalwart the AGM-114 Hellfire or the modern budget killer the APKWS.
Created to kill Russian tanks in Central Europe in case the Cold War turned hot in the 1980s, the Hellfire remains an effective anti-armour air-to-ground weapon but both in terms of capability and cost per unit it is overkill for taking out converted speedboats.
As previously reported, the U.S. is now fielding the APKWS in the skies above Iran to close that kill-cost gap. A guidance kit fitted to a 1960s-era rocket — itself a derivative of a basic 1940s design — the APKWS is:
…just fast and powerful enough to easily destroy and disable small unarmoured targets like Iranian Shahed-type suicide drones, and suicide attack fast boats without spending millions of dollars on prestige missiles for the job.
The U.S. military is taking out large numbers of Iranian small craft, what Tehran euphemistically calls its ‘mosquito fleet’, with the same missile it uses to destroy narco-terrorist drug boats in the Caribbean, President Trump has revealed.
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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USA raining down death from above.
I pity the death wish fools onboard. These brainwashed jokers are getting the Twelver apocalypse that they crave.<<< The scaled down edition.
An adaptation of the rockets fired from Corsairs in WW2 and Korea
Good. Also destroy the root cause of all of this: Jihad talking heads. MoFos are EVIL
Not sure why there would be any left at all by now.
Early smart bombs were basically seeker noses and steering tail fins added to WWII-tech iron bombs. This would appear to be that sort of thinking applied to small rockets to make them guided missiles. Which makes sense.
BTW if you want some incredibly technical WWII aircraft vids, go check out Greg’s Airplanes and Automobiles channel on YouTube. Start with the P-47 series of vids. I’m seriously down the rabbit hole that channel provides.
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181905659568283648
Donald Trump, full unedited quote:
“The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....”
Maverick missiles were big in Desert Storm. Back then they may have been a “prestige weapon” but where are they now?
Trump was a much more effective leader when he didn't simply do what the last person he talked to told him. He's been getting very bad advice lately.
I don’t believe a word Trump has to say about Iran anymore.
Iran chose to attack the three unarmed ships.
Trump is merely responding.
The “mine laying boats” are literally just bass boats or rubber dinghies.
All the real boats are long gone.
It’s difficult to target things you can literally put in a box and inflate.
Someone else responded last night, according to a denial by the USA.
I would presume Israel, but Kuwait and others have had a belly full, too.
He is speaking to Iran and not you .
Trump should go after Iran’s desalination plants. Or at least threaten to do so. Without those plants, Iran in in big trouble...
Interesting analysis. On what do you base that statement?
Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....”
In context, he's clearly referring to sending ground troops to police ME countries internally. We're not doing that. Right now, we're trying to do two things:
1)Prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them;
2) Preventing piracy in international waters.
Which of those things do you think we should not be doing?
And they don’t take him seriously either.
I agree with Trump’s statement.
It’s part of why lots and lots of people voted for Trump, including many people on this forum.
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