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Author: albaby1 BRONZE
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Subject: Re: The US used its own 'Dark Fleet'
Date: 06/11/26 12:25 PM
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The media and this board declared operation Freedom or whatever it was called a failure before it started. Looks like it wasn't - what nobody saw coming was the Navy has evidently deployed a fair number of autonomous warships and drones and they're using them as escorts.

But...it has been a failure. Right? Traffic through the Strait is still almost entirely blocked. Not 100% blocked, but pretty close to it. "70 ships in three weeks" is about three ships a day. Compared to normal traffic of about 150 per day. Getting 2-3% of the traffic restored means that the Straits are 97-98% blocked.

We haven't been able to force open the Strait. Because doing that requires more than taking out Zodiacs - you'd need to secure the coastline to prevent land-based drone and missile launches. Which we can't do with just escort ships.
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