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A friend posted this to his FB page:
They dont have the military capability to close the worlds most important waterway
Every five years, the Iranians would threaten the whole world that they would close the Strait of Hormuz. They never did. They simply cant do it and they are not capable of doing it even if they wanted to do it.
The Strait of Hormuz is the most important waterway in the world. It is about 35 miles wide. And an average of 15 oil tankers pass through it each day. Most people associate the Strait of Hormuzs width with the navigation channel and the traffic separation scheme. This is a normal maritime procedure to separate inbound and outbound traffic. The width of the navigation channel is only six miles including the traffic separation scheme. The traffic is monitored by the Sultanate of Oman by radar located on an Omani island. Ships do eventually pass thorough Omani and Iranian territorial waters. A two-mile wide navigation channel is very narrow in maritime terms. And the strait is very shallow.
http://arabnews.com/opinion/columns/article558030.ece
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)The Attack talk they are going to find their Navy blown to pieces.
I don't have any doubt they might be able to get in a few lucky hits but the end result would be their navy on the bottom of the Gulf and probably their AF too.
Turbineguy
(37,370 posts)This is madness.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)No Way a RATpubliCON could critize Obama for defending the flow of oil