"The continuing closure of the waterway is deeply damaging and getting global shipping moving is crucial to ease cost of living pressures. Iran is believed to have laid at least a dozen mines to prevent oil tankers and other vessels from passing through the strait."
"With a depleted Royal Navy, the UK is likely to play a more limited role in keeping the strait safe and open for commercial shipping once hostilities do cease. The days of Royal Navy mine-hunting ships being a significant presence in the Gulf are over."
"The Royal Navy response is instead expected to be largely autonomous and remote mine-hunter drones, which trick mines into detonating safely by flying in a pattern that makes them look like passing ships."
The UK is set to co-host an international summit with over 40 nations to address the security of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The closure of this vital waterway, through which 20% of global oil flows, is causing significant economic strain. Iran has deployed mines to obstruct vessels, and while the US has diminished Iran's naval capabilities, the threat remains. The UK's Royal Navy will likely have a limited role, relying on autonomous mine-hunting drones for operations in the region, as traditional vessels are unavailable.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]