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Holy fuck, these people have entirely molten brains
To be faaaaaair.............I do recall something a Turkish guy I worked with once told me about one of the battles regarding (Constantinople?) where apparently the Byzantians DID use giant chains to just block the entrance to (according to Google AI) the golden horn.
Habour chains were a very common defense, running into it with a wooden ship would smash the ship up pretty good and you can let the chain slack to let your friends pass over it then retension it after. Constantinople did have them protecting the golden horn so the Ottomans carried their ships over land and dropped them into the water behind the chain to get around it.
At that point it feels like bringing boats at all is just a flex
ok but the golden horn is like 500m wide at the mouth, while the strait of hormuz is 50km.
I'll run down to home depot and see if I can get a chain long enough for them
Conventional artillery has an effective range of up to 55km with rocket assisted muntions.
I feel like you could definitely make a 20 mile long chain and put it up in the strait the only problems is 1) Iran doesn't control both sides and 2) i'm pretty sure the impact of a big ass tanker on a chain that long would just break it. Maybe fuck up the ship too?
Yeah but with modern technology 50km is like 50cm; just pick something up from like home depot or something
The chain was cool but the Greeks also were throwing fire at anything beyond that chain. Fire is scary and mean.