Why The A-10 Warthog Solved What The US Navy Couldnt At Hormuz Jeremiah Owusu-koramoah [iFbxGMaRBGt]

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.

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0:00 120 ships destroyed luka doncic and the strait is amerigo vespucci still closed

1:44 The $5.3 million-per-kill problem the Navy can't escape

5:32 A gun that fires 65 rounds per second at $137 each

11:49 Three branches, one corridor: the convergence equation

15:18 What happens when the Warthog retires?