Iran’s ‘mosquito fleet’ means its battered navy still has bite
Analysts say the IRGC’s low-cost boat-and-drone network can threaten 26 vessels and force the United States to commit more ships and aircraft.
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US President Donald Trump boasts that his military has decimated Iran's navy, but the country's Revolutionary Guards still have a "mosquito fleet" up their sleeve - hundreds, perhaps thousands, of super-fast boats that are difficult to detect by conventional means, The Financial Times reports, citing the Washington Institute think tank.
Iran's "Mosquito Fleet" Mosquitoes Harass US Warships by Moving in Swarms Along the Surface. Reports have emerged that the so-called "Mosquito Fleet" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), secretly deployed throughout Iran's southern coast, is becoming a nuisance to the US military. On the 9th (local time), the Financial Times (FT) reported that... hiding in coastal bays and caves...
Rome, May 9, 2026 - Tehran manages to stand up to the US Navy with small and deadly speedboats, kept hidden in tunnels and put in water for the missions of attack and control of the Strait of Hormuz. It is the so-called "mosquito fleet," literally the mosquito fleet, among the few survivors of the U.S. and Israeli bombings that decimated the most conventional Iranian warships. Líran has put on the field a kind of guerrilla sea, another "Vietnam"…
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