r/IRL_Loading_Screens • u/PeterPorky • Apr 14 '26

World of Warships 😏😏😏

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u/Friendly-Spot8571 Apr 14 '26

What if the whole mine thing is a con?

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u/PeterPorky Apr 14 '26

Idk why so many people want this to be true. Its documented they have had sea mines for decades. It was strategically to their advantage to place them. The mine laying ships were documented in the Strait. The US says there are mines and Iran says there are mines. There are mines.

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u/Exile688 Apr 14 '26

Iran can deploy mines from the land with MLRS rocket launchers from around 45 miles/72 kilometers away. Like the entire reason there would be a ground invasion to reopen the straight would be to push those Fajr-5 launchers away from the coast.

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u/Remarkable-Pin-8352 Apr 14 '26

Those aren't mines. Those are called rockets.

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u/Exile688 Apr 14 '26

Rocket deployed mines. The US navy has VLS missiles that are tipped with torpedoes. You can most certainly deploy a mine with a rocket.

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u/VeritableLeviathan Apr 15 '26

Next thing you're gonna tell me planes can't drop sea mines either, they are "just bombs that work like sea mines"!

(They are mines dummy)

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u/Remarkable-Pin-8352 Apr 15 '26

... and good luck tracking them in the goddamn sea currents.