James Stout
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has destroyed many of those boats.
With the IRGC, we're looking at much smaller, fast attack vessels, right?
Sometimes civilian vessels with a machine gun mounted to them.
Those have not all been destroyed.
It will be very hard for the United States to destroy those all from the air, as it will be for the United States to destroy...
the ground attack capability that Iran has, right?
They have Hormuz missiles.
They have Shahid drones.
They can use regular unguided rockets.
A Shahid drone from anywhere in the country of Iran, given its range, could hit a boat in the Strait of Hormuz.
These Hormuz-class missiles, they're called Hormuz missiles.
They're launched from vehicles, right?
It looks like a lorry.
And it comes out and it pops up its back.
lifts up the missile and launches it.
These are very easy to hide, right?
Lots of entities in this region use tunnels and caves to hide things.
I'm sure the Iranian state does too.
But you could hide one of these missile launches anywhere in a city, in a cave, in a tunnel.
It only needs to pop out, deliver its missile,