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Iran's ultimate weapon to choke the Strait The IRGC Navy has a card it hasn't played yet: swarms of Ashura-class fast attack boats armed with heat-seeking Qadr missiles. Why it is so lethal: Range: 25 km — far enough to hit a tanker from Irania...
...n waters. Speed: 90 km/h — pop out, fire, disappear in under 20 minutes. Guidance: Thermal homing, immune to US electronic warfare. Cost: Cheap to build, big stockpiles. If 20 boats swarm from different directions, the math gets ugly fast. They can also carry anti-drone and anti-helicopter missiles, which pose a threat that the US Navy has no answer for. These boats have not yet been used in combat. So far, #Iran has relied on drones and cruise missiles. However, the knife is already on...