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President Trump on opening the Hormuz Strait: ‘it’s a very small endeavor.’ Let’s break that down. My explainer here. youtu.be/zMS3_5O8kF0?si…

We shouldn’t underestimate the tentacles of Iran.

More of this type of accountability.

@5thgenflyer @Osinttechnical Sure. But on a direct strike from a SAM?

@MikeyKayFilms @Osinttechnical Part of F35s inherent design focus on survivability

Iran just released footage reportedly showing one of its air defense systems successfully hitting an American F-35.

A perfect example of the contrast in cost benefit ratios.

Onboard footage of the US Navy destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) firing a salvo of 13x Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iran on Tuesday.

@MikeyKayFilms was on @BBCWorld a short while ago with more excellent analysis of the US / Israel war with Iran and the possible next steps in this war. He has been spot on all along.

@RightScopee The total irony coming from a former Fox News Weekend co-host.

🚨BREAKING: SecDef Pete Hegseth stares right at the press and goes scorched earth, spelling out their insanity. I could watch this all day. "You, and I mean specifically YOU, the press, you cheer against Trump so hard, it's in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump, because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective." "Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn't true. So let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful." "How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don't know, fly a plane for 36 hours? Has MSNBC done that story? Has Fox? Have we done the story how hard that is?" "There are so many aspects of what our brave men and women did that because of the hatred of this press corps are undermined because people are trying to leak and spin that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible." "You're undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission." "How about we talk about how special America is, that only we have these capabilities? I think it's too much to ask, unfortunately, for the fake news. So we're used to that." Do you firmly support Pete Hegseth on this? A. Huge Yes B. No IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!! MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

@yorkshireladtv Well the asymmetric threat is still there (drones, mines and fast attack craft). And that will govern access to the gulf via the strait. So the escort requirement alone with require a big and enduring U.S presence.

@MikeyKayFilms Exactly that. Let's assume no regime change. And, based on the destruction caused to the Iranian military machine over the last 2 weeks is there any logic to continuation much longer, especially at a Billion $s a day...?

100% accurate.

@yorkshireladtv Define ‘victory’ would be my question.

@MikeyKayFilms Serious question Mikey. Based on your Military analysis, when do you think America will claim "victory"?

@FRHoffmann1 Effective in terms of PK. But two Tamir missiles to take out one target does not bode well for stockpiles and longevity of IDF Air Defence.

Iron Dome once again doing crazy stuff it technically shouldn't be able to do.

@atrupar @MeidasTouch 100% accurate.

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

@BarakRavid @JuliaDavisNews @MarcACaputo @demarest_colin @axios They also dismissed the idea of UKR Mi-17 pilots shooting down Shaheds in June 2024. Ukrainians asked for FLIR camera support for the Mi-17s, they were told it was a stupid idea & it wouldn’t work. Sourcing FLIR cameras from AliBaba, over 5000 Shaheds have been shot down.

🚨🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇷Last August, Ukraine proposed to give the U.S. its battle-proven technology for downing Iranian drones. They even showed how it could protect U.S. forces in the Middle East. The U.S. dismissed it. @MarcACaputo @demarest_colin & me write for @axios axios.com/2026/03/10/us-…

You can watch Mikey Kay’s brilliant analysis alongside Christian Fraser with the current The Security Brief, focusing on the Strait of Hormuz, when you follow this link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=lJeIos… You won’t get this detailed expert analysis anywhere else. Spare 15 mins of your time. A must watch. @BrummieGerryM @TruthTellerDotC

@lamps_apple @MalcolmNance @gbrew24 A $500 million LCS, autonomous underwater vehicles, A-10s with JDAMs, a tanker to provide the A10 with a decent loiter time. To defend against a cheap asymmetric threat (go fasts, drones, jet skis and mines). The major story of this conflict is cost benefit ratios.

Everything you said about the current state of the Navy's mine countermeasures capability is wrong. Not a little wrong. Completely, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong.... "The four ships we had dedicated to doing this we just decommissioned." The Avengers in Bahrain... Devastator, Dextrous, Gladiator, Sentry. Wooden-hulled ships from the 1980s. Ships that were pushing 40 years old. You know what replaced them? Three Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships... Canberra, Santa Barbara, and Tulsa… all three already deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet, all three operating in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf right now, today, as you wrote this little rant. Not in San Diego. Not in drydock. In theater. Carrying the most advanced mine countermeasures mission package the Navy has ever fielded. USS Canberra arrived in Bahrain in May 2025 as the first LCS with a full MCM mission package. USS Santa Barbara is in the Arabian Gulf conducting mine countermeasures operations with unmanned surface vehicles… and, by the way, just made naval history by executing the first-ever at-sea launch of a LUCAS one-way attack drone from a littoral combat ship under Task Force 59. USS Tulsa is right there alongside them. Three ships. In the Gulf. Doing the mission. While you say the Navy "is absolutely not ready for this." These are fundamentally different platforms. Autonomous mine-hunting sonar… the AN/AQS-20C… towed by unmanned surface vehicles so sailors stay outside the minefield. Airborne laser mine detection systems on MH-60 helicopters. Unmanned influence sweep systems for acoustic and magnetic minesweeping. The old Avengers sent sailors INTO the minefield on wooden boats. The new systems keep them OUT of the minefield using robots... something you call a "downgrade" And while Santa Barbara hunts mines, she's operating under armed overwatch from A-10C Warthogs out of Jordan… loaded with JDAMs, laser-guided APKWS rockets, and enough firepower to shred any fast boat or drone swarm the Islamic Regime throws at them. The Avengers never had anything like that. "We lost all of our corporate knowledge." Really? The Navy spent a decade building, testing, qualifying, and deploying an entirely new mine warfare architecture specifically to preserve and advance that knowledge. They trained new crews. They ran operational tests on Cincinnati. They deployed the first operational package on Canberra. The Navy's mine countermeasures technical division ran this transition for years with deliberate overlap between old and new platforms. You lose corporate knowledge when you do nothing. The Navy did the opposite of nothing. "Now we're running an experiment and it's gonna cost people their lives." Three combat ships, forward deployed in the most contested waters on earth, running mine countermeasures with unmanned systems, protected by close air support, integrated with Task Force 59's autonomous warfare network. That's the most capable mine warfare force the United States has put in the Persian Gulf since 1991. Yelling "amateur hour" at people while getting the basic facts of the Navy's current force posture completely, demonstrably wrong… while three ships are literally in the water doing the job he says nobody can do… that IS amateur hour.

@MollyMargulies Thank you

@MikeyKayFilms watching you discuss the Staits of Hormuz. Excellent analysis!!