return2ozma@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIran laying 'sea mines' across Strait of Hormuz shipping lanemetro.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down13
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minus-squareTomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down4·1 month agoSensationalist headline. The US claims that Iran is considering laying mines… Non-paywalled: http://archive.today/m8Bme
minus-squarematlag@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month agoAnd even then, can’t the US military detect them and blow them up? Or have cheap drones patrolling ahead of ships to trigger them?
minus-squareFabledAepitaph@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoI’m not sure the insurance companies will pay out when someone loses a quarter billion dollar freighter plus cargo and associated personnel in a warzone when they come back with “but we put a cheap drone out front just to check for mines” lol
minus-squareTomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoProbably an excuse to use a nuke
Sensationalist headline.
The US claims that Iran is considering laying mines…
Non-paywalled:
http://archive.today/m8Bme
And even then, can’t the US military detect them and blow them up? Or have cheap drones patrolling ahead of ships to trigger them?
I’m not sure the insurance companies will pay out when someone loses a quarter billion dollar freighter plus cargo and associated personnel in a warzone when they come back with “but we put a cheap drone out front just to check for mines” lol
Probably an excuse to use a nuke