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Captain explains reality of Hormuz Strait passage​

Apr 9, 2026 #Hormuz #iran #war
For a full five weeks, until a ceasefire was declared early on Wednesday, Captain Raman Kapoor and his crude oil tanker crew were caught in a war zone in the Persian Gulf, “sitting ducks”, along with 20,000 fellow seafarers, for the drones and missiles zigzagging above their heads between Iran, its neighbours and the US military.


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What the genius of Trump is doing in 10 minutes...

Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Jujitsu vs. Iran, Europe’s NATO Weakness, and the Swalwell Scandal Fallout​

 
Fatrat said:
Well, there is the matter of the lost Sea Mines, we blew up the people who knew where they were and destroyed the boats needed to pick them up...other than that, we're fine.
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How do we know there are any sea mines at all?
 
Some time ago , I read that the Iranians had developed their sea mines to only detonate on command ie not just dumb mines .
Just sit quietly on the bottom of those relatively shallow corridors and await a call . Probably not rocket science for a pretty clever bunch of people ……
And even one version that could quietly position / reposition itself as instructed.

Don’t underestimate them.
 
rblong2us said:
Some time ago , I read that the Iranians had developed their sea mines to only detonate on command ie not just dumb mines .
Just sit quietly on the bottom of those relatively shallow corridors and await a call . Probably not rocket science for a pretty clever bunch of people ……
And even one version that could quietly position / reposition itself as instructed.

Don’t underestimate them.
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They have great engineering, I can see them making remote controlled movable mines...
 

Britain's Real Fear Isn't Russia—It's This​

00:00 The Midweek Update - The 'Boring' Document That Terrifies the British Empire - December 17, 2025
01:53 How London’s Panic is Out In The Open, and Russia Knows It
04:54 New Economic Strategy: People, Not Bankers First
09:04 Phase One: War vs Cartels
 
Goldhedge said:
How do we know there are any sea mines at all?
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Fatrat said:
They have great engineering, I can see them making remote controlled movable mines...
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Just some food for thought.

Strait of Hormuz - Mines - The Strauss Center

Flexible, relatively cheap and historically effective, military forces deploy naval mines at various water depths, in both defensive and offensive situations. Defensively, military forces deploy mines to discourage undesired entrance into territorial waters. Offensively, mines are deployed to...
www.strausscenter.org www.strausscenter.org

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Iranian Mines in the Strait of Hormuz not ‘Showstoppers’
 
Wow, a little late and if America goes back to war, they will be in range, great time for Argentina to reclaim the Falklands or should I say Malvinas....
 


OK, now I get the meaning of Q's reference to The Sum Of All Fears.

In the movie a rogue group smuggles a nuke into the US and detonates it, hoping to provoke nuclear war with Russia. But Ryan and his team figure out the plutonium came from the US originally and therefore could not have been Russian - as happens in the clip Clandestine has there.

This post kicks off with the route U1 uranium took to finally end up in Iran. And the last line is the reference to the movie.

I believe the key idea we're supposed to take away from the reference is that the US will be able to trace Iran's uranium supply right back to the US itself and Uranium One.
 
So now I hear the Strait is closed. WTF? Only a matter of time until the entire planet sees the results of this lunacy.
 
Fatrat said:
Wow, a little late and if America goes back to war, they will be in range, great time for Argentina to reclaim the Falklands or should I say Malvinas....
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I used to side with the UK on the Falklands and have been invited to film a documentary for the CFF, but have changed my allegience to Buenos Aires due to recent politics.
 
nickndfl said:
I used to side with the UK on the Falklands and have been invited to film a documentary for the CFF, but have changed my allegience to Buenos Aires due to recent politics.
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The Uk claims the Falklands for fishing rights, minerals and oil, might as well give it back to Argentina.
 
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