The extreme xenophobic Paulbots and their Code Pink ignorance that the insane can be trusted with the worst weapons of mass destruction on the planet seem to be greatly fearful of the American reaction to the Theocracy's use of drones over the Straight of Hormuz...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/irgc-touts-spy-drone-image-close-ups-us-carrier-strait-hormuzSeriously, change you shorts, put on a new diaper and learn...
a) The Mahdi Cult is tired of using unreliable naval fleet that is vastly out gunned.
b) The Mahdi Cult's drones hardly look threatening, appear no better than online retail offerings with no boast of even made up weaponization.
c) The Mahdi Cult is fully aware of what would be required to cause an American response...and those maniacs haven't tested that yet.
d) Pretty sure a target microwave burst on these things would be all that is needed to disable them...making any disappearance look sufficiently questionable as to cause and thereby reducing any impulse to go stupid...but Mahdi Cult can be stupid...and stupid has consequences...and that risk is always with them so nothing new there.
e) Monitoring a carrier task force not that hard here...it's narrowest point is 21 miles wide and had basically 3 main shipping lanes...
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So, applying some math developed over 2000 years ago...
21 squared is 441 times 8 (actually closer to 7.98 but 8 works...7.98"/Mi) = 3528/12 = 294 feet tangent.
So, a Mahdi Cultist above 294 feet in height with a pair of binoculars can see clear across the straight.
A long way of saying BFD!
