U.S. Military Is About To WIPE OUT Iran's Mosquito Fleet In One Swift Move

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Hey everybody, it's May 12th, 2026, and the ceasefire between the United States and Iran is, in the words of the president of the United States, quote, on massive life support. Trump read Iran's latest proposal, the one they spent 4 days putting together. Actually, I think it was a little more than that.

[00:00:16]And he didn't even finish it. He called it a piece of garbage and threw it back.

[00:00:21]Here is where things stand right now.

[00:00:22]Iran's IRGC Navy has between 500 and 1,000 armed fast attack craft dispersed across coastal tunnels, bays, caves along southern Iran. Satellite imagery from the past week shows about a hundred of them in formation north of the strait near the Cargon coast. They also have cruise missiles on standby. They have drones locked and ready and their commanders are publicly telling state media that their finger is on the trigger and they are ready to go.

[00:00:50]President Trump posted this image on Truth Social just today, a few hours ago from this video being produced and in some not so uncertain terms showed MQ9 Reaper drones crushing Iranian fast attack craft. So that's obviously on the minds of the military planners. It's on the minds of the commander and chief and this is likely how this conflict would kick back off, crushing these 500 to a,000 mosquito swarm boats if things get hot again. But on May 4th, the US military sent six of those boats to the bottom of the Persian Gulf. And on the same day, Iran hit an oil terminal in Fujaraja. And the Wall Street Journal dropped a story yesterday that just changed the entire picture of who's actually fighting in this war right now.

[00:01:34]That wasn't an accident. That was the trailer. And today we're getting basically the full film. Exactly how the US military is positioned to eliminate Iran's mosquito fleet as a strategic threat in a single coordinated wave. The kill chain, the platform, the munitions, and why this one move changes the entire Hormuz equation and who that shadow partner is that has just entered the war against Iran. We're going to get into all of that throughout this video. And then we're also going to do a global roundup with breaking news stories out of the entire globe, including Taiwan, Russia. So stay around for that. It's about threequarters of the way through the video. So Iran says they've got their finger on the trigger and the US has shown them that six of their fast attack craft are at the bottom of the ocean and more could be joining them here very shortly. So it's kind of like Iran is that crazy dude on steroids. So you're like, "Yeah, man. You look huge, but you literally can't do anything. You can't even drink without a straw." Iran at this point. So now that we have some context about what could happen in the next few days, wait until you hear about the full operational picture about what's going on. So the US kicked off project freedom in early May with the explicit mission of restoring freedom of navigation through the straight of Hormuz. We know that was the ultimate objective and now it looks like it could kick back off. Admiral Cooper from Sentincom was quoted as saying, "We have an enormous amount of capability and firepower concentrated in and around the straight, including AH64 Apaches, MH60 Seahawk helicopter, and the US defeated every single one of those threats that was trying to threaten commercial shipping." So, these are sentcom's words, not mine. They said, "We have defeated each and every one of those threats through the clinical application of defensive munitions." I like how they put that. Yeah. just calm, cool as a cucumber. That's the best way for military operations to happen. Just walk softly, carry a big stick, and in this case, your big stick was an AH64 Apache.

[00:03:30]Plus, multi-dommain unmanned platforms that are now operating in theater. We know there's multiple MQ9s, likely RQ4 Global Hawks, but those MQ9s can be loaded out with hellfires. So, they're a very capable platform because you can do ISR, intelligent, surveillance, and reconnaissance. And I know you guys needed an acronym and you were sitting there like, "When is it going to happen?

[00:03:52]When is this acronym going to happen?"

[00:03:53]Well, you're welcome. There's your first one. ISR, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance is a massive capability of the MQ9. They're relatively cheap and they can be loaded to the teeth with hellfires. I mean, these things can carry a lot of these hellfires. The Hellfire missile is very versatile. It can have a warhead on it or it just extends and basically turns into a massive flying razor blade. Yeah.

[00:04:17]You don't want that flying at your face.

[00:04:19]But that's what's likely going to be going against these IRGC fast attack craft along with the bullets from the AH64 Apache and from the A10 Warthog.

[00:04:29]Also the F-15E. That's something that we would train to pretty much weekly was strafing these fast attack craft especially when we were headed towards the Middle East cuz we always knew this situation could kick off with Iran using the straight of Hormuz as their last domino. But here's the subplot that's just come into full view. And this is a huge development. It matters to the kill picture. So while Iran was throwing boats and missiles at Project Freedom on May 4th, it simultaneously launched a barrage at the UAE. Just willy-nilly, hey, we're launching against US naval assets and commercial shipping. Let's also launch against the UAE. I mean, these guys are lunatics, but they're mafia bosses that have their finger on the big red button. They have an actual military. Well, not a lot of their military is left, but they still have proxy forces. So, it's like a mafia boss with proxy forces. I mean, how would Al Capone and Pablo Escobar be if they had an actual massive military behind them and not just their little proxy forces that they had? I mean, you got to do something about that problem. That's what's being done right now. But they launched 12 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles, and four drones at the UAE. That was confirmed by the UAE Ministry of Defense. Most of those were intercepted by the UAE THAAD system and Patriot batteries. But one of the Iranian drones got through and hit the Fuja petroleum industrial zone, torching off a large fire on their oil terminals.

[00:05:52]And that's a facility that sits at the end of a pipeline. That's UAE's only hormuse bypass route. So their whole goal is to cut off their bypass route.

[00:06:01]That's what Iran wants to do. It's capable of moving 1.5 million barrels per day around the straight through the Gulf of Oman. Three Indian nationals were injured. Iran hit the one pipe that was keeping Gulf oil moving around the blockade that they created. So they not only created that blockade that's now being countered by the US Navy and US Air Force. They're blockading. They're blockade. It's literally the Russian doll of blockades. But Iran, being the mafia bosses that they are, are now striking any of the Gulf partners that are trying to avoid the straight of Formuz, making everything as painful as possible on supposedly who was their neighbors. And according to these reports, the UAE has secretly struck Iran's Leavon Oil Island refinery in the Persian Gulf in early April, around the time the ceasefire was being announced.

[00:06:47]The attack believed to have used Emirati Mirage 2009 jets sparked a major fire and knocked the facility, which processes around 55,000 barrels of oil per day offline for months. Iran acknowledged the refinery had been struck in what it called an enemy attack and responded with a barrage against the UAE and Kuwait. So, the UAE has been absorbing a lot of these hits for months with that one attack likely being UAE, but as of last night, that's no longer the only attack from what it looks like.

[00:07:15]UAE is now taking off the gloves and the US is welcoming this development.

[00:07:19]Obviously, this makes Abu Dhabi the third confirmed combatant in this war alongside the US and Israel. And it adds a strike axis into Iran that Tran can't publicly attribute to Washington, which just complicates the 4D chess for them.

[00:07:34]And don't worry, we'll get to that 4D chess section soon. But before we get to what the US and its partners can bring to bear, you need to understand what the mosquito fleet actually is and why it's been Iran's real naval power play for 40 plus years and it's what they're leaning on now. Because like Sunzu says, know your enemy, know yourself. So, let's get to know this enemy a little bit better.

[00:07:54]The IRGCN's mosquito fleet is not a weakness for them. It's a doctrine and that's what they're falling back on.

[00:08:00]They actually see it as their main strength because they knew their main navy was going to go bye-bye relatively quickly with the advanced systems from the United States. But it's been 40 years in the making them planning for this moment. After operation praying mantis in 1988 when the US Navy destroyed roughly half of Iran's conventional surface fleet in a single day, Iran made a decision. Never fight the US Navy on equal terms. What they built instead was a mosquito war model on steroids. small, fast, cheap, replaceable, and designed to operate in swarms in the confined literal environment of the Strait of Hormuz, where geography basically cancels out a lot of the US range and firepower advantage to some extent, but obviously not to a massive extent with their mosquito fleet being crushed right now.

[00:08:47]Think tanks right now are estimating that the IRGC Navy currently operates between 500 and a,000 armed fast attack craft. The inventory includes the PAOP and the Zulfgar class fast guided missile boats roughly 14 tons diesel powered capable of 50 plus knots crewed by three likely armed by a 12.7 mm machine gun Kowsar anti-hship missiles or the Nor 802 missile which is a Chinese derivative. Ah, China, thanks for bringing some fireworks to the party, China. We can always count on you. They also are built to run relatively low in the water line, which means radar picks them up late, potentially also inside of the decision time needed to protect a commercial ship, especially or to report that they're being attacked. They can't see them till the last second. So, you need the US Navy's advanced assets right now to take these things down using the Eegis system, using F-18s that are up, airborne F-35s, using their radars, and then the MQ9 like what we saw in President Trump's post this morning. But the structural vulnerabilities of these boats are real. They have zero air cover. They have no organic electronic warfare capability. And they can't survive an armed helicopter engagement in open water like we've seen the AH64 Apache just turn these things into cheese grers. Basically, the May 4th action confirmed that in about 12 minutes, six of these boats can be completely decimated. The effectiveness of these boats depends entirely on radar clutter, night movement, and the US being too spread out to respond. and for them to be able to swarm in on an unsuspecting cargo ship. But you take away the clutter advantage, the mosquito fleet becomes a fixed target list. And the clutter advantage is now being systematically decimated by the Eegis system and by these advanced drones that are in the area, spotting where they're coming from, knowing what's going on as far as where they're hiding in these coastal coes and then targeting them just like US Southcom has targeted those narco boats. And now you made it to the global roundup, my friends. You guys loved this in the last few videos, so now it's coming right back at you. So, let's talk about Russia's body count going public. Independent Russian outlets, the Medazona and Medusa, both operating out of Latvia, because they can't operate inside Russia anymore, released a joint estimate on Victory Day, May 9th, 352,000 Russian military personnel killed since February 2022. That's their count. And that could be light compared to some of the other counts. 352,000.

[00:11:16]And that might not count some of the prisoners that aren't even being counted in some of these estimates with some estimates going over a million. But it looks like Putin is saying that there could be an end coming to this war with what looks like some rumbles of negotiation. Sunzu said know yourself and avoid battles where you have extreme losses. I think Russia might have skipped that chapter. And the next story is Taiwan has written a $25 billion check. On May 8th, Taiwan's legislative body passed a special defense budget of $780 billion Taiwan dollars, roughly 24.8 billion US to fund US arms purchases through 2033. The first trunch of weapons are going to be the highar multiple rocket systems, M109 A7 self-propelled howitzers. When a regular Habitser isn't enough, just get the self-propelled model, Javelin anti-armour missiles and CO2B missiles.

[00:12:12]The second trunch will include counter drone systems for air defense, potentially directed energy weapons. And this shows that Taiwan is ready for a massive drone swarm that could come from China if the conflict over there kicks off with us seeing China actually build a drone mother ship, which is wild. And for the next story, Trump is supposed to depart for China for a May 14- 15 summit. This is the first US presidential visit to Beijing in a decade. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson has already confirmed Iran will be a centerpiece of the discussion. China recently hosted Iran's foreign minister Abbas Agarachi and is positioning itself as a back channel to hopefully reopen the straight of hormones. They probably told Agarachi, "Make a deal." And Agarachi is like, "Yeah, I don't really control the IRGC necessarily." And so China's like, h maybe that brings us to a position where there might be some other deals made behind the scenes with the United States. Will that happen?

[00:13:07]That remains to be seen. But likely China and the US administration will be fully focused on Iran during that trip.

[00:13:13]And that brings us to the 40 chess strategic analysis section. So what does Iran actually want to happen here? Well, they want full control over the straight of Hormuz. They're basically saying, "We want to control an international waterway." and they're actually expanding how much they want to control.

[00:13:30]So, you're allowed 13 nautical miles from your coast. That's what international law says. And Iran's like, "Well, we're mafia bosses and we have a mosquito swarm fleet of fast attack boats, so we're not going to listen to international law and we're just going to push around countries without a backbone, so we can do whatever we want in the straight of Hormuz and prop up our mafia empire." So, these latest negotiations and this proposal, this looks to be a stall. They asked for sovereignty over the entire strait, war reparations, lifting of all sanctions, and an end to the naval blockade. And they pushed any discussion of nuclear concessions to a later date without even naming a date. So here's what Tran actually wants. They want time. They want time to rebuild, time to reconstitute, time to get China in the room as a counterweight. They want time to push the global economy to the brink so that they think it will bring all these nations to their knees and they'll just let Iran be the mafia bosses that they want to be. And if it was up to those other countries, they'd probably be right. We've seen the UK's leadership, not the people, the leadership in the UK, the leadership in France. These leaders basically have no backbone and they've been tapped along by Iran for a long time. And Iran saw that that worked and so they want to just keep doing the same thing. They want to keep pressuring these countries by choking off that oil supply. But it looks like the US administration isn't having it with what we're seeing massive calls from people in the United States, people who want the free people of Iran to actually rise up. A lot of US Iranian citizens, a lot of you watch this channel. So, a lot of people are standing up and saying they want to finish the job and root out the IRGC's ability to control the strait of Hormuz and to build a nuclear weapon. So, it looks like even though Iran is trying to tap along the world, the US isn't having it. And who knows, maybe some of these other nations will get on board. But we're seeing the UAE jump on board to help with the coalition. We're also seeing that France has sent a strategic aircraft carrier. So, it's not nothing.

[00:15:28]So, thanks France. You're stepping in.

[00:15:30]You're coming to the barbecue at 9:45 p.m. The grill's a little bit cold, but at least you came. And France is like, "Yeah, we brought one baguette and a can of mustard." We're like, "Well, cool, France. At least you showed up. So, it's kind of like Toron is bringing a mosquito fleet to a bug zapper flight with the bug zappers in this case being the A-10 Warthog, the AH64 Apache, and the UAE's Mirages. So, at the end of the day, it looks like taking on these fast attack craft might be the next section of this conflict that we see with now the US administration calling a spade a spade, saying that Iran is just trying to tap along the world again without a serious negotiation. So, what do you think happens here in the next 3 to 5 days? It's going to be very interesting to see if these fast attack crafts start getting hit by these MQ9 Reapers like what we saw in that post at the beginning of the video. Let me know what you think in the comments below. Would love to hear what you have to say. I read all the comments, especially the ones within the first two hours, and I try to respond to those as well. So, let me know what you think in the comments below. Would love to hear your thoughts.

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[00:16:44]They're like, "US, we just we just want sovereignty over the entire global waterway. You bombed our nuclear site, so technically this is your fault. We're not victims here at all." Iran's running basically like a multi-level marketing scheme. They're like, "Hey, become a Hormoon sovereignty partner today for the low cost of lifting all sanctions, paying war reparations, withdrawing the US Navy, and acknowledging our divine right to tax international shipping and hold the waterway hostage. Yay. Join today. Special offer 50% off a mosquito fleet."

[00:17:16]Iran's basically like in the therapist's office and Iran's like, "What's happening right now is the US just isn't hearing our needs. Alls we really need is for us to run our mosquito fleet and keep our missiles locked and loaded. And the US Navy just isn't listening. I think we're going to have a breakup.

[00:17:31]Iran's like, "If you don't agree to every point of our negotiation, and if you don't let us fire on our Gulf partners and Navy ships during the ceasefire, you're just being a big meanie, and that's a violation by you and not us." This is basically the worst multi-level marketing scheme we've ever seen. And it's like scroll to the bottom and click I accept or we reserve the right to deploy our massive mosquito fleet. And oh by the way, your computer will blow up after you click accept.