"The thing that worries me most right now are the drones. I'm not too worried about the mine laying. You've seen that CENTCOM has gone after their mine-laying capabilities. They can't drop mines from the air. They can only do it from the sea, from surface vessels, and as your reporter just rightly noted, many of those surface vessels have been destroyed."
"It's the drones that can fly low and slow and are hard to detect that can actually help shut down traffic in the strait itself, and that's a whole different level of complexity to go after because they have thousands and thousands of them."
"The Strait of Hormuz is only 20 to 25 miles wide at the narrowest point, and there's about a six-mile what we call traffic separation scheme that kind of runs down the middle of it. So it's a narrow way in and out. It's a very, very dangerous choke point."
Former Biden administration spokesman John Kirby, a retired Navy rear admiral, discussed U.S. military operations against Iran with Fox News. Drawing on his experience protecting the Strait of Hormuz during the Reagan administration, Kirby addressed current security concerns in this critical 20-25 mile wide waterway. He emphasized that while mine-laying capabilities have been degraded through CENTCOM operations, the primary threat comes from Iranian drones that fly low and slow, making detection difficult. With thousands of drones available, Iran poses a complex challenge to maintaining strait traffic. Kirby noted that the U.S. Navy possesses convoy capabilities to address these threats.
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