🇮🇷🇺🇸 Pravin Sawhney: Iran just demonstrated why the U.S. naval blockade may be in trouble

Iran may have just changed the military equation in the Strait of Hormuz.

Pravin Sawhney argues Tehran’s recent anti-ship ballistic missile launch wasn’t intended to hit an American warship, but to show that it could.

According to Sawhney, the missile used a depressed trajectory, dramatically reducing the time available for Aegis-equipped U.S. destroyers to detect, track and intercept a weapon approaching at roughly Mach 10.

That matters because the destroyers are the shield around the carrier.

Sawhney says a warhead of roughly a tonne arriving at that speed could potentially punch through a destroyer’s deck.

Iran deliberately missed, he argues, because the point wasn’t to kill hundreds of sailors.

It was to demonstrate that the ships enforcing the blockade are vulnerable.

And Tehran is now pairing that military warning with a political one, announcing plans for a restricted shipping zone extending from the U.S. blockade line through Hormuz.

Sawhney’s conclusion is unusually simple:

“The American naval blockade is in trouble.”

Washington wants to prove it controls the Strait.

Iran is trying to prove that anyone enforcing that control has to sit within missile range.

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