The ship’s 21 crew members were safely evacuated and no injuries were reported, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.
All I care about in the article
Wow! It’s amazing what a totally obliterated military can do.
IEDs are cheap and easy. This will go one as long as they want. Nothing can be done about it now.
Once you use mines, you have to assume there is always mines. Oil prices will never go down now. Insurances companies will see to that.
This wasn’t even an IED, it was a projectile per the article.
Iran is a large mountainous country, with tons of places to hide launchers, all within range of the strait. And unlike Afghanistan, it’s a very well educated country capable of producing its own sophisticated weapons. There’s a reason Russia of all countries turned to them for help against Ukraine.
These aren’t improvised explosives, they’re carefully engineered. There’s a reason why the west has long avoided direct confrontation with Iran, most recognized the tar baby situation a war would cause. They’re not some country utterly reliant on cold war stockpiles to conduct war.
tar baby situation
Wow, that is the first time I’ve seen that word used in the non-slur sense.
I understand. What Im saying is regardless they can keep this up indefinitely through far cheaper means. No amount of destruction can stop it, military intervention cant stop it, nothing can. Until they are done.
Guess I picked the perfect time to switch to electric
How deep is the Strait? If both Iran and US keep sinking ships, how long until it becomes in-navigeable?
They will refloat a ship and tow it to be salvaged. Even a cruise ship will fuck the environment if it breaks up underwater.
The question is, how many of the large ships like tankers and container ships are there? Not something you replace next week.
Roughly 10,000 tankers worldwide, with about 1,000 active at any one time.
No
Yeah, looks like the shipping lanes are around 300ft deep and 2mi wide.
