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US Perspective on the Iran - Israel / US War
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F-22Raptor
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U.S. conducting stealth operation to transport oil through Hormuz
The U.S. military has quietly established a shipping corridor in and out of the Strait of Hormuz to transport millions of barrels of oil each day — a notable success even as the broader war remains at a stalemate, two U.S. officials told Axios.
- Under the operation, which has been underway for the last several weeks, 15 to 20 tankers have entered and exited the strait through a southern channel along the coast of Oman.
- About 10 million barrels of oil a day — roughly half the pre-war volume — are being transported out of the strait and injected into the global energy market, the officials said.
Why it matters: The U.S.-led operation is mitigating one of the most painful aspects of the war: the disruption to oil supplies that sent crude prices soaring. While the amount of oil coming out of the strait is still below pre-war levels, it is making a discernible difference in global supplies, officials say.
How it works: The effort goes beyond escorting outbound tankers with oil on board. The U.S. military is helping empty tankers enter the Gulf from the Arabian Sea through the strait, pick up oil from countries in the region, and then exit.
- The full details of the operation have not been previously reported.
- "We have been controlling the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz for two months now. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps can be a nuisance, but they don't control the strait. We do," one of the U.S. officials, who has direct knowledge of the matter, said.
- The task force is coordinating with regional Gulf partners. It creates a daily list of ships coming out of the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Arabian Sea, as well as a list of rented empty tankers that travel from the Arabian Sea, through the strait and into the ports of Gulf countries to pick up more oil.
- Each night, the ships are scheduled to move in one big outbound line during a certain time slot and one big inbound line during a separate time slot.
- The ships then transit through the southern channel based on U.S. military guidance.
- The U.S. Air Force has fighter jets that protect against Iranian cruise missiles and drones.
- Iran has diminished visibility of the traffic in the southern channel of the strait. Its monitoring is limited to a few radars it managed to reconstitute as well as "spotters" in small IRGC fast boats, U.S. officials say.
- Because the Iranians are mostly "blind," they are launching drones and cruise missiles in the general direction of where ships might be transiting.
- Some ships have been hit by the Iranian attacks, but many were stopped by the U.S. military. Earlier this week, for example, U.S. forces shot down eight Iranian drones and two cruise missiles, one of the U.S. officials said.
- The average daily exports have been growing and are now close to 10 million barrels, U.S. officials say.
- On some nights over the last few weeks, they note, the amount of oil moving out of the Gulf was 15 to 20 million barrels.
- On one of the nights this week, more than 20 ships were slated to move in and out of the strait through the southern lane, with approximately 15 million barrels of oil potentially coming out, one of the officials said.
- He said the U.S. is not negotiating with Iran at the moment. "They are wasting time. It's a waste of time to negotiate with them," he said.
- "The Iranians still have some fight left, but overall they are a shell of themselves," Trump said.
Flotilla
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Yeah, sure—mission accomplished!
I repeat: let's see if you've got the balls to carry out a FONOPS through the Bab el-Mandeb or the Strait of Hormuz.
They must be horrified in Taiwan.
Flotilla
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US DDGs have entered the Strait multiple times. Even came under heavy drone and missile fire to no effect
2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught
Two U.S. Navy destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Persian Gulf after navigating an Iranian barrage, according to defense officials.www.cbsnews.com
We saw all in TV. Ten drones shoot down and 4 FACs destroyed!!!!.
Hakwa Nadro
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F-22Raptor
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Reality must be difficult to accept. Iran has lost the war:
- Military is destroyed
- Infrastructure is destroyed
- Nuclear industry destroyed and HEU buried
- Under naval blockade and economy cratered
- Irans last card, Hormuz, is now mostly gone. See my last post above
- Iran has gotten nothing. Zero assets unfrozen, zero sanctions relief etc
USN performance has been excellent. Thousand of sorties and strikes and successfully defended against hundreds of attacks without taking a single hit.
Flotilla
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Please, try not to sound like an Israeli bot repeating the same nonsense.
The day before yesterday, the US lost its forty-sixth Reaper while trying to sneak in through southern Iran. (25% of ALL FLEET!!!).
What the hell are you talking about regarding destroyed military targets?
Even the French don't pay any attention to you guys, man.
Pakistani Dragon
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Take it or leave.
Stop wasting your precious time on me. You’re clearly wasting my time for no reason.
I didn't ask for your opinion or your arguments, so I'm not sure why you suddenly felt the need to start demanding proof from me and presenting whatever it is you're trying to present.
Right. Could you please stop following me around like a Chihuahua? I don't know you, and I don't recall ever having engaged in a conversation with you in the past.
F-22Raptor
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MQ-9s are war on terror era drones that were never meant to survive contested air space. I’m not at all concerned about that capability loss, especially as CCA and more advanced loitering drones become operational.
Airframe losses outside drones were historically low.
You pretending the 22,000+ US and Israeli strikes never happened? 80% of Centcoms target list were hit. ADM Cooper wanted to finish the remaining 20% last month, but that would require full combat operations to resume which Trump didn’t approve.
Flotilla
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You´re hiding the truth.
Those guys have shoot down from Apaches to MC130 passing through A10 or even F15s.
The Reapers are the ONLY aircrafts that are entering Iranian airspace.
Come on, big shot—send 100 fighter jets!!!.
Flotilla
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Brad Cooper is a moron. Listen to Dan Co-Caine, even if he is a Trump-sucking sycophant.
That place (Iran) is a fucking hornet's nest. Those people have spent over 60 days manufacturing and importing all kinds of weapons from China and Russia. And unlike the United States, those people don't export anything anywhere.
They don't send missiles to Ukraine, Germany, Spain, or anywhere else. Whatever they do—even if it's just throwing bricks—it's going to come crashing down on your heads.
They’ve been preparing for this for 40 years, while you lot are playing Israel’s whore and rolling out the bed for them.
The best thing you can do is let those morons go up against Iran alone. If you don't, you're going to be up to your necks in shit.
You know that story about the sailor who jumped off the deck of the Lincoln?. Well, that’s exactly what Trump is doing if he makes the mistake of getting involved there.
KingQamaR
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If the US Even failed to protect its bases across GCC and across the Middle East from Iranian attacks then how can one be confident that US mission is going well!!!
F-22Raptor
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-2 MC-130s were destroyed by US forces in the F-15 pilot rescue
- 1 Apache was shot down
- 1 A10 was shot down, another damaged
- 4 F-15s shot down, 1 by Iran, 3 in a friendly fire incident
Here is what US Air Force aircraft inventory will roughly look like into next year. This doesn’t include Army, Navy, or Marine aircraft:
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