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Footage released by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims to show the targeting of a U.S. Navy destroyer near the United Arab Emirates, amid rising tensions between Tehran and Washington. The video appears to show smoke and explosions on a warship, which Iranian sources say were caused by a drone strike during a direct confrontation at sea.

However, these claims remain unverified. U.S. officials have denied that any destroyer was hit or damaged, stating that American naval defenses intercepted incoming threats. Analysts also caution that viral combat footage is often misattributed, edited, or taken out of context, especially during periods of heightened geopolitical conflict.

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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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