Ibbi32
Registered Member
Those ships have very sensistve hull mounted sonars and can easily detect and avoid any mines. They also have an array of guns and helicopter cover that can deal with any usv and fast boat threat before it gets close enough. Drones are a bit tricky to deal with without expending lots of missiles but with enough emirates has shown how effective cuas can be in filtering through most of the threats and paired with CIWS and Gun based AD they wont be a major threat. Besides even if a drone or two hits they wont do any damage of note. The ballistic and cruise missile threat is the easiest to counter as those are threats which require dedicated missiles and for those the sm-2/3/6s will be more than capable of handling.I do not underestimate anything just learnt what their real capabilities are, in theory maximum AD missiles of each destroyer can field about 100 AD missiles, if you scramble task force of five or six of those it is several hundreds, how many drones and missiles can Iran rain on them, much more of those juicy targets which have several hundred people each onboard if you add sea mines, fast patrol boats with anti ship missiles which are in shelters now, droned one way fast boats, it is suicidal mission for us navy.
Iran has thousands of anti ship threats but it cannot launch them at once the numbers i provided are based on what i believe iran can continue to throw out despite prowling hostile airforces bombarding their sites. Running the strait without softening up irans capability further is not advisable and without a solid plan is suicide but it is inherently possible for them to run the Strait with enough planning to get to kharg island




