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U.S. Navy orders unmanned, underwater mine-clearing craft to sweep Persian Gulf amid fears of imminent attacks on oil platforms from Iran
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[quote:Archaic Mason:MV8xOTIzMTY5XzMyMjAwMjc5X0QwMjJGMjJC] [quote:Anonymous Coward 19373111:MV8xOTIzMTY5XzMyMjAwMjA4X0U4NjQ1NDdB] You people are going to be posting "war with Iran" shit every single day until it happens. Then someone will claim they called it. [/quote] LOL Fact of the matter is - it's only a matter of time. Everyone knows it. Their message keeps getting more and more violent as the UN steps up sanctions. Now we are pre-emptively searching for underwater mines so our sea bearing vessels can have safe passage. Pieces are falling into place, faster now than ever before, and if diplomacy won't work, (hasn't in the past) then look for a hot conflict with Iran. I'd like to reiterate that it just won't be the US, the whole world's got a stake in that strait, and its not Iran's to close. Period. [/quote]
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The U.S Navy is transporting dozens of unmanned underwater craft to the Persian Gulf to help locate and destroy mines in anticipation of a military conflict with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The tiny SeaFox, four-foot long submersibles are equipped with an underwater camera, sonar and an explosive charge and have been urgently requested by Marine General James Mattis, the top U.S military official in the Middle East.
Each $100,000 submersible is designed to be either detonated near mines in the water or to detonate the mines themselves by ramming them.
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