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01:11May 2026, the Strait of Hormuz, 33 kilometers wide at its narrowest point.
01:18Three U.S. Navy destroyers, the USS Truxton, USS Mason, and the USS Rafael Peralta are making a routine transit.
01:28These are Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers, among the most capable warships ever built, each one bristling with radar,
01:37missiles, and electronic warfare systems.
01:40And Iran decided to test them. Not submarines, not fighter jets, speedboats. Dozens of them. Small, fast, armed IRGC vessels
01:51that Iran calls its Mosquito Fleet.
01:54And that name is deliberate. A mosquito doesn't overpower you. It overwhelms you.
02:00These boats are cheap to build, nearly invisible on radar, and can swarm from every direction at once.
02:07Iran has trained with this tactic for decades.
02:10It's specifically designed for the confined, cluttered waters of the Gulf, where a superpower's technological edge gets compressed.
02:18The IRGC launched a coordinated assault. Fast attack boats swarming from multiple axes combined with anti-ship missiles and drones
02:28fired from shore.
02:29The idea is saturation. Hit a defended ship from so many directions at so many angles that something gets through.
02:38Here's where it gets fascinating. The destroyers were ready.
02:42Layered air defense systems tracked and intercepted incoming missiles and drones.
02:47The ship-mounted CIWS, a close-in weapons system that fires 4,500 rounds per minute, stood guard against anything
02:56that slipped through.
02:56AH-64 Apache helicopters were in the air. U.S. jets provided cover from above.
03:03The swarm met a wall. Not a single U.S. ship was hit. The destroyers completed their transit.
03:11Iran claimed victory, anyway. Standard playbook.
03:14But the real story here isn't who won this round.
03:17It's that a country is willing to throw swarms of speedboats at three American destroyers in one of the world's
03:25most critical waterways.
03:27The Strait of Hormuz is no longer about oil.
03:30It's becoming the front line of a new kind of warfare.
03:33Cheap, fast, swarming, and deeply unpredictable.
03:37And it's happening right now.
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