More than 30 nations engaged in what is being called the single largest naval drill in human history aimed to find 29 simulated sea mines planted in the water. The results were not very good, according to Captain Robert O’Donnell.
“I don’t think a great many were found,” O’Donnell said of the fake mines, saying that less than half of them were ever actually located. That is a stark difference from the official statement, which initially claimed “no missed mines.”
The long and short of it is that every anti-mining ship managed to find a mine, but most of them apparently found the same few, and most of the mines just stayed there for the duration of the exercise, undiscovered.
This isn’t exactly promising results if Iran indeed deploys hundreds or thousands of sea mines into the Straits of Hormuz. If the multi-week exercise couldn’t even find 29 practice mines, they seem woefully ill-prepared to fend off large numbers of the real thing.
Will the first mine to blow take the dollar with it………………….?????
"every anti-mining ship managed to find a mine"
That will probably be an apt description of a search for the real thing…they're going to need a lot of ships…and lifeboats.
A nuclear depth charge will clear a lot of mines, won't it?
Last line should have read… '.. they seem woefully ill-prepared to fend off large numbers of the real thing, whilst being shot at'.
Wow! Sounds like the TSA and their "drills" where they failed so many times that it made a mockery of the whole kabukiesque charade. Not that it stops them. Failure will always be rewarded!
All those ships would be sitting dicks (sorry ducks) for Iranian cruise missiles
Yep. The Empire is sinking faster than the Titanic. They can't even find an egg a chicken coup anymore.
Iran should take notice.
They are busy holding their sides laughing.
The MIC could not have planned things any better. Operations chiefs in place? Investors at the sonar scopes? Those 'pesky invisible mines'.