Indian-flagged boat sunk off Oman in latest attack on Gulf shipping

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17. The 1st question is how many missles, drones, airborne and seagoing can a CIWS and missles take care of?

2nd is what about mines?
3rd is convincing people to crew big, slow oil tankers.
4th is it only takes one missile, drone, mine to get through to stop the whole thing.
5th is if there are enough of these arms to occupy a destroyer what is going to protect the oil tanker.
6th Drones can be small enough so that the Aegis Combat System can only see them for about 30 miles. Using SM2's which cost about 2 million each would not be cost effective and the HELIOS Laser is not deployed yet. They have Loitering Munitions/Interceptors and Kinetic & Electronic Warfare but once again it only takes one drone getting through to make all of this too expensive in money and lives.
I could prob keep going.
Its asymmetric warfare something that even we have problems with re pretty much all war from Vietnam on.
The strait will stay closed for as long as Iran wants it to be.