A pair of F-16C of the 79th Fighter Squadron participate in the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group’s Weapons System Evaluation Program East at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., Nov. 16, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt Lindsey Heflin)
The United States will deploy additional fighter jets around the strategic Strait of Hormuz to protect ships from Iranian seizures, a Pentagon official announced on July 14.
The unnamed official told reports that Washington is increasingly concerned about the growing ties between Iran, Russia and Syria across the Middle East.
The U.S. will send F-16 fighter jets to the Gulf this weekend to assist the A-10 attack aircraft that have been patrolling for more than a week, the official said. The announcement comes after Washington claimed on July 5 that Iran tried to seize two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz and fired on one of them. These claims were denied by Iran.
According to the official, F-16s will give air cover to the ships moving through the waterway and increase the military’s visibility in the area, as a deterrent to Iran.
Tensions have been mounting in the Gulf e since Iran seized two oil tankers on April 27 and May 3, reportedly in response to the capture of a China-bound Iranian oil shipment by the U.S. near southern Africa on April 22.
The U.S. announced on May 12 that it will increase the rotation of ships and aircraft patrolling in and around the Strait of Hormuz.
The decision to deploy F-16 fighter jets in the Gulf will likely lead to even more tensions with Iran. Any attempt by the U.S. to actually use force against Iranian naval forces in the waterway could quickly escalate into a dangerous military confrontation.
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won’t last in the air for longer than 1 hour and 30 mins.
what will the inbred sissy muzlims do? use their dics to shoot them down or will try throwing sand witht heir weak hands? 😂😂😂😂🖕🇵🇰🖕🇵🇰🖕🇵🇰
what possibly could go wrong? good thing isreal is there to ensure nothing baaaad will happen to the jets, especially keeping an eye on iran who is surely dumb enough to shoot one down leading to a attack on iran’s nuc. program location.
inbred faggot muzlims are only capable of wagging their dicks in public until they get chopped off 😂😂😂🖕🇵🇰🖕🇵🇰🖕🇵🇰🖕🇵🇰
we’ll wag our dicks in your face just before we chop off your cowardly inbred faggot head and shit on your throat 🔪🩸🪓
i am sure the sissy arab emirates can protect their stolen oil themselves from iranians.
us mericnary forces should go bomb hostile neighbour nations like commie canada and the border with the diseased south beaners.
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the strait of hormuz lies in joint iranian and omani territorial waters. each nation has the right to protect their respective territory from criminal and terrorist activity.
an appropriately sized shipping and transportation lane is a requisite for any nation that claims title to a straight.
iran signed but did not ratify unclos. as per the 1958 geneva convention all coastal states have the right to deny and detain foreign vessels deemed to be engaged in “non-innocent” passage.
target practise for iran. every time you see one on the radar, lock them. they will see on there screen been locked and piss there pants. send a fire cracker and they shoot themselves out off the coffin. land in the water and nice meat for sharks. bey bey yankee.
if cargo carriers want us protection they should fly us flags and bear us registrations. otherwise the us is simply taking on being the world’s police. the cost of being the world police is too great. where is the un on this matter btw? seems the us wants to cede our authority to the un on things like scamdemics but take on the un role in defense. its not part of a sensible agenda
who appointed yanky ball suckers to patrol the straight of hormuz???
just imagine the hysterics if iranians took it upon themselves to patrol the coast of california
persian gulf !!!!