Illustrative image. (U.S. Central Command)
Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), claimed on March 21 that over 8,000 of Iran’s military targets, including 130 vessels, had been hit, marking “the largest elimination of a navy over a three-week period since World War II.”
“Just two days ago, the US Army launched the longest field artillery strike in Army combat history using precision strike missiles. The strike took out Iranian military infrastructure, demonstrating the US military’s unmatched reach and lethality,” the commander said in a video briefing.
Th commander went on to claim that Iran has suffered a major decline in its combat capabilities over the previous three weeks.
He said that CENTCOM was able to demolish the Islamic Republic’s intelligence support sites and missile radar relays that were responsible for following ship movements, along with the facility, describing these capabilities as a “dangerous risk” to shipping.
The briefing included footage showing strikes hitting at least eight Iranian vessels, the vast majority of which were missile boats.
Just two days earlier, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it carried out a series of strikes at the Iranian port city of Bandar Anzal and in the Caspian Sea, destroying a corvette, four missile boats, and several auxiliary ships and guard boats.
The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy took heavy losses during the ongoing American-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic. However, their anti-shipping capabilities are still very much in place thanks to a wide array of systems that can be launched from ashore, including cruise and ballistic missiles, suicide drones, unmanned boats, and even unmanned underwater vessels.
The strategic Strait of Hormuz remains under tight Iranian control, and this will not likely change even if CENTCOM and the IDF destroyed all Iranian vessels.
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well, they’ve hit 8,000 ‘targets’, but how much oil for the west has passed through the strait?
iran is being destroyed…their “great allies” russia and china are powerless to stop it…heheheh