US Navy Faces Millions in Extra Costs per Destroyer Transit as Hormuz Stays Blocked
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Updated · Bloomberg · May 11
US Navy Faces Millions in Extra Costs per Destroyer Transit as Hormuz Stays Blocked
3 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 11
Millions of dollars in added costs now accompany each US Navy destroyer passage through the Strait of Hormuz while the waterway remains blocked and unsettled.
Those missions require heavy protection — fighter jets, helicopters and expanded surveillance — underscoring that transits are still treated as high-risk operations.
US officials assess that sending destroyers through on their own is unlikely to reopen the strait, limiting the practical impact of the costly missions.
The expense highlights a broader constraint on US efforts to restore shipping through one of the world's most critical oil chokepoints.
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