The US Navy decommissioned Middle East minesweepers last year. Here’s what they did.

The U.S. Navy decommissioned half of its Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships last year and began replacin…
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Tensions Rise as Iran Deploys Naval Mines in the Strait of Hormuz

📰 Original title: Irán lleva la guerra a la navegación por el Estrecho de Ormuz

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#geopolitics #iran #hormuz #navalmines

As the threat of mines in the Straights of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf in general I am reminded of this article in The War Zone in which a few months ago the trump admin PULLED all the minesweepers out of the gulf.

The proposed replacement of which there are 2 modules total so far is to have the LCS aka Little Crappy Ship replace them. The ONLY thing the LCS is good for is as a bullet point pointing to why you cannot trust the navy to run procurement programs

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https://www.twz.com/sea/navys-avenger-class-mine-hunters-have-left-the-middle-east-for-good