Swarm warfare: how iran’s ‘mosquito fleet’ is outmaneuvering a global blockade
You can hear them before you see them, a distant sputter of engines carrying across the seemingly empty waters of the Strait of Hormuz.
Then, out of the haze, they appear. Speedboats — dozens at first, then hundreds — bouncing over the swell, each carrying no more than two or three men, their faces wrapped in scarves against the spray.
For the next two hours, they stream past at a relentless pace, churning across the narrowest stretch of the strait where our boat bobs on the waves.
The constant traffic offers a clue to a larger truth. Sealing the world’s most important waterway is one thing. Reopening it is quite another.
For while few vessels now pass through a strait under double blockade, plenty still move across it. And within this swarm, it would be almost impossible to distinguish a trader from a boat laying mines.
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