00:20May 2026, the Strait of Hormuz, 33 kilometers wide at its narrowest point.
00:27Three U.S. Navy destroyers, the USS Truxton, USS Mason, and the USS Rafael Peralta, are making a routine transit.
00:37These are Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers, among the most capable warships ever built,
00:44each one bristling with radar, missiles, and electronic warfare systems.
00:49And Iran decided to test them.
00:52Not submarines, not fighter jets, speedboats.
00:56Dozens of them.
00:57Small, fast, armed IRGC vessels that Iran calls its Mosquito Fleet.
01:03And that name is deliberate.
01:05A mosquito doesn't overpower you.
01:08It overwhelms you.
01:09These boats are cheap to build, nearly invisible on radar, and can swarm from every direction at once.
01:16Iran has trained with this tactic for decades.
01:19It's specifically designed for the confined, cluttered waters of the Gulf, where a superpower's technological edge gets compressed.
01:28The IRGC launched a coordinated assault.
01:31Fast attack boats swarming from multiple axes combined with anti-ship missiles and drones fired from shore.
01:38The idea is saturation.
01:41Hit a defended ship from so many directions, at so many angles, that something gets through.
01:46Here's where it gets fascinating.
01:49The destroyers were ready.
01:50Layered air defense systems tracked and intercepted incoming missiles and drones.
01:56The ship-mounted CIWS, a close-in weapons system that fires 4,500 rounds per minute, stood guard against anything
02:05that slipped through.
02:06AH-64 Apache helicopters were in the air.
02:10U.S. jets provided cover from above.
02:12The swarm met a wall.
02:15Not a single U.S. ship was hit.
02:17The destroyers completed their transit.
02:19Iran claimed victory, anyway.
02:22Standard playbook.
02:23But the real story here isn't who won this round.
02:27It's that a country is willing to throw swarms of speedboats at three American destroyers in one of the world's
02:34most critical waterways.
02:36The Strait of Hormuz is no longer about oil.
02:39It's becoming the front line of a new kind of warfare.
02:42Cheap, fast, swarming, and deeply unpredictable.
02:46And it's happening right now.
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