{"id":5883032,"date":"2026-07-17T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/centcom-strikes-iran-hormuz-blockade-tanker-hellfire-july-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:23:00","slug":"centcom-strikes-iran-hormuz-blockade-tanker-hellfire-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/it\/centcom-strikes-iran-hormuz-blockade-tanker-hellfire-july-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"La guerra aerea americana per mantenere aperto Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>A commercial oil tanker was steaming through international waters toward Iran when a U.S. aircraft put Hellfire missiles into its smokestack. The ship stopped. It was, in the plainest terms, a blockade being enforced with air power &mdash; and it is happening every night over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p><p>U.S. Central Command has resumed a naval blockade of Iranian ports and paired it with nightly precision strikes, aiming to strip away Iran\u2019s ability to threaten shipping through the world\u2019s most important oil chokepoint. Two U.S. aircraft carriers and their <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/it\/aerei\/fa-18-super-hornet\/\">F\/A-18 Super Hornet<\/a> air wings sit at the centre of the operation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.03em\">INFORMAZIONI RAPIDE<\/p><table style=\"border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5\"><tbody><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 14px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Operazione<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">U.S. blockade of Iranian ports + nightly strikes, Strait of Hormuz<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 14px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>15 July<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">90-minute wave hits coastal-defence &amp; cruise-missile sites on Greater Tunb Island<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 14px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>The tanker<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">U.S. aircraft disables Curacao-flagged M\/T Belma with Hellfire missiles<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 14px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>16 July<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">Fifth straight night of strikes; jets, drones and warships hit air-defence &amp; maritime targets<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 14px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Forza<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">2 aircraft carriers, 20+ warships, 10,000+ personnel, dozens of aircraft<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 14px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Perch\u00e9 \u00e8 importante<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">~20 million barrels of oil a day transit the Strait (EIA)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 14px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Fonte<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">U.S. Central Command releases; CNN; NPR; Al Jazeera<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A blockade enforced from the air<\/h2><p>The trigger was Iranian attacks on commercial tankers in the strait. Washington\u2019s response was to reinstate a blockade it had run once before, from April to June, and to back it with force. When the Curacao-flagged M\/T Belma pressed on toward Kharg Island despite warnings, a U.S. aircraft disabled it with Hellfire missiles fired into the ship\u2019s funnel &mdash; a deliberately non-sinking way to stop a vessel dead.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The commercial vessel ignored multiple warnings as it attempted to violate the U.S. blockade.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>U.S. Central Command<\/strong> &mdash; Official statement, 15 July 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>That same day, CENTCOM said it completed a 90-minute wave of strikes against coastal-defence systems and cruise-missile storage and launch sites on Greater Tunb Island, along with targets near Bandar Abbas &mdash; all of it aimed, in the command\u2019s words, at Iranian capabilities used to threaten vessels transiting the strait.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1579032678  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/ae\/Strait_of_hormuz_full.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the Strait of Hormuz\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Strait of Hormuz, roughly 30 miles wide at its narrowest \u2014 the chokepoint the strikes are meant to keep open. Map: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Carriers, drones and boarding parties<\/h2><p>By 16 July the strikes had run five consecutive nights, with fighter jets, aerial drones and warships hitting coastal surveillance, air-defence sites, logistics and maritime targets. The blockade itself is a sprawling effort: more than 10,000 sailors, Marines and airmen, two carriers &mdash; among them USS George H.W. Bush with its 60-plus aircraft &mdash; and over 20 warships.<\/p><p>It is not all missiles. U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit boarded the tanker M\/T Wen Yao in the Gulf of Oman to verify compliance. During the earlier April-to-June blockade, CENTCOM says it redirected more than 140 compliant vessels, disabled nine that refused, and waved through over 50 ships carrying humanitarian aid.<\/p><h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The stakes beyond the strait<\/h2><p>Around a fifth of the world\u2019s seaborne oil &mdash; some 20 million barrels a day &mdash; passes through this 30-mile-wide gap between Iran and Oman. There is almost no way to route around it at scale. That is why a single disabled tanker and a night of strikes ripple far beyond the Gulf, into insurance markets, oil prices and the calculations of every government that depends on the crude flowing west and east from the Persian Gulf.<\/p><p>For now, the pattern holds: warnings, then Hellfires; a wave of strikes, then another the next night. The U.S. is betting that overwhelming, visible force keeps the strait open. Iran is betting it can make that force too costly to sustain.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pEa_Hd0CXkk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;text-align:center;margin-top:-8px\">Background: why the Strait of Hormuz is the world\u2019s most important oil chokepoint.<\/p><p style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:14px;color:#555\">Sources: U.S. Central Command public releases; CNN; NPR; Al Jazeera; Stars and Stripes; U.S. Energy Information Administration.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Post correlati<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/us-corsair-sea-drones-strike-bandar-abbas-iran-2026\/\">America's Drone Boats Just Went to War<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fords-super-hornets-wear-their-war-paint\/\">Ford's Super Hornets Wear Their War Paint<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commercial oil tanker was steaming through international waters toward Iran when a U.S. aircraft put Hellfire missiles into its smokestack. The ship stopped. It was, in the plainest terms, a blockade being enforced with air power &mdash; and it is happening every night over the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command has resumed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5883036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5883032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-aviation","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>America&#039;s Air War to Keep Hormuz Open<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"US carriers, jets and drones are enforcing a blockade of Iran across the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 including a Hellfire strike that disabled a tanker.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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