Politics × Energy

Iran war week six: US F-15E downed, Hormuz effectively sealed

Iran shot down a US F-15E on April 3; an A-10 Warthog crashed near Hormuz the same day. By April 5, US special ops recovered the weapons officer. Hormuz throughput cratered to 3.8 million barrels per day from a February average of 20mb/d.

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