The Iranian ‘mosquito fleet’ taking on the mighty US Navy

Trump’s claim to have destroyed the conventional navy was “a case of true but also irrelevant”, Kaushal said. “They destroyed the regular Iranian navy very early on. But the regular Iranian navy was always a parade ground force,” Kaushal said. Iran is really relying on “the IRGC navy — the mosquito fleet, the cruise missiles, the UAVs [drones] and all these other asymmetrical capabilities”. There was “no evidence that the Americans have made as significant a dent in that capability as they would have wanted to”, he said.