captain_spalding said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Securing oil tankers to navigate safely in the gulf seems to be significantly harder than I anticipated.

VERY big, slow-moving targets. A narrow, easily-monitored waterway. Weapons with more than enough range.

The Strait of Hormuz is 21 miles/33km wide, but average depth is only 35 metres. Very Large Crude Carriers have a draught (how deep they are below the waterline) of 20-23 metres. They can’t use much of the waterway.

They use two shipping lanes, which vary between 3km and 5km wide. At the narrowest point, the two lanes and the buffer zone between them are compressed into a 5.5mile/9 km space.

Exercise control/interdict shipping? A piece of piss.

So fill it up with sunken tankers and how deep the draught?