Lone Wolf 50
As noted up thread who in the Pentagon / White House gamed this through ? It was a bloody obvious tactic given what happened back in the 1980,s and that was without the volume of Drones and missiles currently being used.
As has been stated LPG Carriers will go off with a very loud and expensive bang for the crew, and indeed surrounding ships and insurers, oil tankers less so, though you could end up with an ecological issue if fully laden outbound. If in bound an oil tanker high on its marks will take quite a bit of punishment before abandoning its crew as was found out in the 1980,s. The question given the number of escorts that are around now compared with back then is there enough, and indeed of the right size for the task. Obviously having assumed complete air superiority it helps, but it is the drones and small missiles which may well be the problem combined with mines and drone boats. I assume that the Iranian submarine fleet is maybe not functioning currently, so that may not be in the equation. All in all quite a task.
May I ask if you were involved in the first one by the way ?
Cheers
Mr Mac