Genuine question - is there anything to be done to secure the Straits of Hormuz?
Well first eliminate the Iranian navy. According to their press release the USN has already eliminated their surface fleet and the tweets and notes I’ve seen show the fast patrol boat and min sub fleets have been destroyed in their harbours - so that should mean the gulf is secure against sea mines.
Next would be their extensive number of anti-ship missile launchers along the coast, but I would presume all the fixed site ones are now wreckage. That leaves the mobile systems and hopefully there are ESM aircraft watching for emissions and CAPs ready to engage any which light-up.
That leaves their drones - which they seem to have been using effectively to date.
Not sure how you stop all of them, but jamming of control frequencies would be one solution , but wouldn’t stop those with NVIDIA Jetson, or equivalent, autonomous targeting PCs which would need C-UAS, guns etc on the tankers themselves.
* e.g.
https://balticsentinel.eu/8284227/uk...and-engagement
https://medium.com/illumination/fpv-...i-0caeb4b3ca69
A threat that didn’t exist during the first tanker war and a difficult one to defend against - just as on the battlefield.