The US Navy destroyed 120 Iranian warships — and Hormuz is still closed. Two carrier strike groups, eight Aegis destroyers, and $40 billion in naval firepower couldn’t reopen a six-mile shipping lane clogged with 1,500 fast boats. The answer wasn’t a newer ship or a bigger missile. It was a 50-year-old Air Force jet the Pentagon wanted to throw away. The A-10 Warthog was never designed for naval warfare. It was built to kill Soviet tanks on the plains of Europe. But its GAU-8 cannon, low-speed maneuverability, and titanium-armored cockpit turned out to be the exact engineering solution for a problem the Navy’s blue-water arsenal was never built to handle — cheap, fast, swarming targets in a confined corridor. This is the equation behind the most counterintuitive combined-arms operation in modern military history. #USNavy #A10Warthog #StraitOfHormuz #NavyDecoded #OperationEpicFury #IranWa

Source: Why the A – 10 Warthog Solved What the US Navy Couldn’t at Hormuz