00:00This tiny submarine is the U.S. Navy's worst nightmare in a war with Iran.
00:04And it's not because of what it can sink, it's because of what it can stop.
00:08Meet the Gadir class, a midget submarine barely 95 feet long.
00:12While the U.S. spends billions on massive deep-water vessels,
00:16Iran is betting that these cheap, silent assassins can paralyze the entire global economy.
00:20Instead of hunting ships in the open ocean,
00:23these subs are designed to sit on the seabed of the Persian Gulf,
00:26hiding in the noisy, shallow waters where massive U.S. sonar systems struggle to see them.
00:31They don't need to win a naval battle to win a war.
00:34By simply planting a few mines or threatening a blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,
00:39they create instant global panic.
00:41If oil stops flowing through this tiny choke point, prices skyrocket and supply chains collapse.
00:47It's not just a weapon, it's an economic hostage situation.
00:50The U.S. Navy is forced to slow down, spend billions on detection,
00:54and play a terrifying game of hide-and-seek against a fleet of 20 invisible threats.
00:59Iran isn't matching the U.S. ship for ship.
01:01They're just making the water too dangerous to enter.
01:04Is this mosquito fleet strategy enough to deter the world's most powerful navy,
01:08or is it just a bluff?
01:09Let me know what you think in the comments.
01:11I don't think it's just a little bit of a general threat.
01:11Let's go over it.
01:12We'll see.
