Alastair Crooke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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to deal with a substantial landing of troops.
It is terrible.
The mountains, the cliffs are full of anti-ship missiles, and the mountains also are full of caves and tunnels where artillery is in position.
Digging artillery out of mountains is a terrible, expensive job.
And in any case, you can't get into, that wouldn't give you, if you had Karg Island, you wouldn't have control of Hormuz because the Iranians have, as I say, anti-ship missiles, but they also have, which we haven't seen used so far, submersible drones.
These are small drones that are in tunnels under the water.
They are submerged tunnels and they can exit under the water from those tunnels.
They have lithium batteries which can last about four days.
They have the capacity to loiter and then use artificial intelligence to select the target and to attack the target.
Then they have surface drones, about 600 fast ship surface drones.
Most of those are concealed also.
And they have finally, which is not acknowledged much, but they have about 25 to 30 mini submarines.
And the draft in
that HOMOS is relatively shallow.
These submarines are mini-submarines, very small, and they can fly up and down HOMOS, and they can fire anti-ship missiles from a submerged
They are under the waters or attack it with other forms of drones by these small submarines.
So they would be very vulnerable trying to go in there and certainly more vulnerable.
We've seen what happened over the weekend where the U.S.
lost many aircraft.
partly because of an attempt to rescue two crew from the F-15, but also the subsequent operation, which was probably an operation to try and take the enriched uranium from Isfahan nuclear facility.
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