🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Navy SEALs spent four months clearing Iran's mines from Hormuz, diving at night to strap charges onto them BY HAND The covert operation ran mostly after dark. SEAL divers worked alongside the Navy's Common Uncrewed Surface Vessel, a drone boat that tows sonar-equipped submersibles like the MK 18 Mod 2 Kingfish to scan the seabed and find the mines. Once a mine was located and the area cleared, a diver went into the water, approached it, fixed a charge to it and destroyed it, or a robot drone did the same where it was safer but slower. They cleared roughly 80 mines the IMO had counted in June, across four months, with no American casualties, which for work this dangerous is its own achievement. Credit the sailors who pulled this off. The dark truth is how fast Iran adapts around them. Last week it fired rockets rigged to drop sea mines from shore, a delivery method that seeds the water in an afternoon without exposing a single boat to the Navy, and its military claimed two tanker hits in the same stretch. The SEALs cleared the lane the hard way. Iran keeps inventing cheaper faster ways to fill it back in. Source: Financial Times / Writer: Daniel