Basically, a kind of floating armored, exohull for tankers, one that's hardened enough to withstand Shahed Kamikaze strikes (or more), that floats on pontoons, and is pulled by a tug.Ballistic missiles would be much more difficult to protect against--but hitting a moving target with the cheap ones Iran uses is next to impossible.Mines would be another issue. You could have some mine clearance device in front?Traffic through the strait would be much slower, but at least it would increase.
>>65259311They could also incorporate some active defense, too. Maybe something like CIWS on the roof?
Would be easier to just nuke Tehran.
>>65259311What if, hear me out guys, what if No listenWhat if we take the oil and gas and send it through a pipe to a port where it doesn't have to go near the strait or Iran?
>>65259361The problem is international shipping is held up. Really there just needs to be a ground invasion. Israel can do it with American air cover. Just run down the strait and charge a flat fee per ship to finance the operation.
>>65259361yeah, that could work too, and though stationary, they're supposedly not hard to fix if damaged, and there's no reason the bulk of the pipeline can't be buried.Go look at maps comparing US oil/gas pipelines vs Arabia. It's actually pretty crazy how little pipe the Arabs have laid, compared to the US.Pipelines can also be built fairly quickly.Often environmental and other regulatory red tape, along with NIMBYism, and green "lawfare" is the biggest hurdle to completion.
>>65259361oman and the uae just need to dig a huge canal
guys what if we just never invaded Iran and these stupid threads had no reason to exist
why dont we just put ciws on freighters
>>65259381why don't we float your behemoth mother through the gulf while all the drones bounce off her fat ass
>>65259381Because that's a last-line of defense susceptible to saturation attacks.I'm talking about some kind of floating structure (like pic related, except not a drydock, and with full aerial coverage) that would make these ships substantially immune to kamikaze drone strikes, maybe with CIWS or similar active protection mechanisms augmenting it.
>>65259406>Because that's a last-line of defense susceptible to saturation attacks.just put more ciwsif people are worried about weapons on civilian ships they can be a subscription model, controlled via starlink by official military AI and disabled while in port
>>65259417I doubt insurers will be willing to underwrite these tankers as long as a single, direct hit is capable of doing damage substantial enough to result in injuries, death, or loss of the vessel and its highly-flammable cargo.Also the exo-hulls would be reusable across many ships; they enter on one side of the strait, exit it on the other, where some other ship etners it.
>>65259417lmao it's fnuny that one can post blatant idiotic bait like this and /k/ will seriously reply to it
>>65259442meant that for opactually the whole thread now that i look at it
>>65259442We do not live in a particularly intellectually brilliant era.
>>65259364>Israel can do it with American air cover.IDF diaper forces are shitting in pants in Lebanon getting Drone Raped hourly by not even a real army.Oh, and you can bet they have in fact full USAF air cover of USAF pilots, ground crews, etc, flying USAF jets with Israeli markings still wet paint.
>>65259311>and is pulled by a tugWouldn't you just hit the tug?Then it's dead in the water and you can hit it with whatever at your leisure.
>>65259361>Gee, Timmy. We sure should replace movable ships with stationary pipelines that can be easily cut anywhere along its length! Why are /k/ posters underaged cowadoody players?
>>65259586>SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
>>65259607The tug(s) would be inside the shell, e.g., having one on either side of the tanker, or perhaps pushing it from in front.
>>65259641Thats literally one of the mitigatins being done by gulf states at this time.
>>65259356>*Would be easier to just nuke Tel Aviv.Ftfy
>>65259738>whynotbothmexicangirl.gif
>>65259641Those ships sure are workin out great now aren't they
>>65259370>>65259311This. Dig The Line.
>>65259738God's anon, take me out to dinner before getting me hard like that
I think the effort I hear of to build large canals to bypass the strait are probably gonna be the most effective in the long term
>>65259406How much is the standoff distance from the hull? 20ft? The EFP don't care
>>65259311What if we just stop supplying Israel with the munitions that they keep using to break the ceasefire?
>>65259311The insurance companies don't careany possibility of the ship being attacked = no insurance, doesn't matter how well protected the ship is
>>65259803You don't need a canal just some pipes lines.
>>65259959They'll just put wings on their bomb Gavins.
>>65259641You say that but palantir and anduril are leaking at the thought of multi billion defence contracts for defensive towers and drones to protect such a pipeline. And if a pipeline feeds the American MIC.. maybe it will happen.
>>65259311At what fucking cost, holy shit.Also no.
>>65259361That would be ceding territory to the Iranians>we would draw a red lineAlready did, it's called the Hormuz>this time it's differentYeah rightWhat's needed is backbone to push back and Desert Storm the turdies back to the 20th century, but the Dems and Yuropoors don't even have the political will to enforce national borders let alone foreign ops
>>65260772one more bombing run, man, this time they'll give up.face it, there was no plan for what happened if the initial strikes didn't collapse the government.
>>65260772>>65259311>>65261045Kamala would have come up with a real plan to invade Iran, and would have convinced the rest of NATO to help.If Momala was given a chance, American troops would be eating Kebab(or whatever the hell Iranians eat) and fucking sexually-liberated Persian women in Tehran, by now.
>>65261045The fact of the matter is we never should have stopped bombing the death cult. Anyone who doesn't support stopping the world's preeminent exporter of terror is complicit (or brown).
>>65259361What if we just let them get rid of the source of the problems without interference?
>>65261124and what? how does it actually stop the government? they tanked the initial strikes, and any strikes afterwards just degrades capability, not ends them, and frankly it hasn't been doing that well enough to be deemed a success either.there is also the important problem that if the straight is closed for too long much of the world starts starving, which is quite negative for US foreign policy.just accept it was a poorly planned and executed operation done because the president wanted a quick victory for votes + prestige and salvaging it through violence is basically impossible without wrecking everything more important than the war itself.can you seriously articulate, anon, how bombing them continually would actually improve the US position or actually remove the IRGC? in fact, I'd go so far as saying that the failure of the war has in fact catapulted the IRGC into basically owning the country now.>>65261116you joke, but a lot of people seem to not understand that iran and iraq are different places.
>>65261124>the world's preeminent exporter of terrorQatar and Saudi Arabia have much more involvement in that lol, but they're America and Israel's friends so nobody minds.
>>65261209>firehose of falsehoodNigger behavior.
>>65261226Shalomhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terrorism
>>65261241Nothing that a little airplane donation cant fix
>>65261209>It's a race to the bottom!!!!Everyone else in the Middle East hates Iran for a variety of reasons. Chief among them: destabilizing the region via terrorist proxies.
>>65261207>Shills talking to shills talking to shills>who's shilling who.jpgTrillion in infrastructure losses and 300 gorillion from US proxy states and western industry to buy up the rubble, no limits on Iranian oil... in dollars, and expensive ocean trade between China and the EU/Russian black sea route. And Bibi trying everything to fuck it up. Truly our greatest ally.
>>65261345>And Bibi trying everything to fuck it up.Honestly the funniest part about it all.
>>65261241>Qatar does it so Iran doesn’tI’d say “shalom” to you too, but you’re clearly brown so I’ll stick to something else:>THANK YOU SAAAAAAAR EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE
>>65261116>Kamala>convinceIf she could convince anyone of anything she'd be president right now instead of Trump. Not a single person on this planet likes or listens to that cunt.
>>65259364>Israel can do it with American I'm not even pro-Iranian, but Israel couldnt even if they wanted to. The fact is Iran is quite the tough cookie. They have the population, geography, and political will to stomach whatever Western countries are willing to throw at them.
Need armored ships with plenty of CIWS, more like ww2 cruisersSo they can sit there in the strait, and defend ships passing throughEveryone knew this was going to be an issue for 40 years nowbut oh well, Trumps fault for letting the jews control his foreign policy, who cares if Iran nukes tel aviv, does he think there are ANY JEWS anywhere in the world who wouldn't spit on his grave?
>>65259311>and is pulled by a tug.I would just sink the unprotected tug then.
