Chilling Footage: Iran Stocks Enormous Supply of Kamikaze Naval Drones

Iran's military, or what's left of it, is still trying to play the intimidation game. On Thursday, they revealed images of what they claim to be a fleet of ship-killing suicide drones, with which they are threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz.

A certain level of skepticism is probably in order.

Iran’s military has shown off its enormous supply of naval suicide drones, which it is using to blockade the crucial Strait of Hormuz, in chilling footage taken from its underground “missile city.”
Footage from Iranian state media purportedly shows underground tunnels full of naval drones, anti-ship missiles, and sea mines, with dramatic footage also showing some of them being fired.
Experts have analyzed the footage, released by Iranian state media outlet Fars, telling CNN exactly what is being shown off.

CNN is the only international news agency that the Iranian regime is allowing to operate in the country. You can probably draw the obvious conclusions from that.

Here's what is being claimed by Iran to have on-hand:

Abadil-2/3 “kamikaze” drones: Shown on rail launchers inside the tunnels, these are designed for deadly one-way strikes on ship sensors and superstructures.
Shahed-136 drones: Primarily a land-attack drone, but naval versions shown inside the tunnels can be mounted on fast-attack craft or hidden launch racks to target coastal infrastructure and tankers.
Zolfaqar drones: Small, explosive-laden autonomous boats designed to swarm larger naval vessels.
Ghadir anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM): Long-range cruise missiles with a 190-mile range, shown on mobile truck launchers inside the tunnels.
Nasr-1 (ASCM): Shorter-range, high-precision missiles designed for coastal defense, capable of being launched from speedboats or hidden bunkers.
Khalij Fars (ASCM): Quasi-ballistic anti-ship missiles that Iran claims can hit moving targets at sea using an electro-optical seeker.
Maham sea mines: Acoustic/magnetic influence mines, often seabed-mounted, that can detonate without direct contact, just by detecting the physical signatures of passing ships.
Sadaf-02 sea mines: Contact mines that are often shown being loaded onto civilian-style dhow sailing vessels, or fast boats.

There's more being reported:

The footage also highlighted large bays for suicide drone boats, hundreds of cruise and ballistic missiles — including the Ghadr-380 — primed on mobile launchers, and stacks of sophisticated naval mines ready for deployment in the Strait of Hormuz.
The earliest mention of Iran’s “missile city” was in March 2021, when the IRC released footage showing rows upon rows of anti-ship missiles and electronic warfare equipment, as reported by the Jerusalem Post at the time.
The IRGC claimed it had built the base deep underground to protect it from naval bombardment.

OK, that's a lot to absorb.

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But let's step back and think this through for a moment. Iran is claiming an awful lot of unused ordnance here; why reveal it if they really have it? If the American and Israeli forces in the region don't already know where this "missile city" is yet, then they will sure as shooting (hah) be looking for it now. And when they find it, well, the B-1 Lancer bomber with some bunker-buster bombs seems tailor-made to deal with this kind of a problem - with, again, a suitable application of high explosives. So these things are buried? Well, so were a lot of Iran's nuclear facilities, and we learned then what can happen when you send one bunker-buster after another down the same hole, an act of ordnance-delivery precision that would have been inconceivable only a few years ago.

Every war, everywhere, every-when, is won or lost by logistics. Iran's log trains have been seriously degraded - that's military-speak for "blown to bits." Every missile, every drone Iran launches is one less they have, one they cannot replace. So, if they do have these, what are they saving them for? What are they planning?

If these things can be confirmed to exist - I'm not convinced by anything CNN reports - then they should probably be jacked up the priority-target list a few notches.

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