During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, the Russians decided to transfer their "legendary and formidable" Baltic Fleet to the Pacific Front. During the voyage, in the Tsushima Strait (Japan), the Imperial Japanese Navy completely destroyed the Russian fleet. In Russian historiography, this naval "battle" is called the Tsushima Disaster.
After the Americans sank the Iranian fleet, the Russians began to worry about the fate of their "legendary and mighty" Baltic Fleet.
Aftor suggests hiding the Baltic Fleet, just as they hide the "legendary and invincible" Black Sea Fleet🫢
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"Tsushima in Hormuz": What can we learn from the defeat of the Iranian fleet?
The unilateral destruction of the Iranian fleet, which ceased to exist in just a few days, gives rise to rather grim thoughts. Could the Tsushima-off-Hormuz incident repeat itself in the event of a conflict with NATO in the Baltic Sea, and can it be avoided?
Tsushima-off-Hormuz
According to various estimates, the US Air Force and Navy were able to destroy between 30 and 58 surface ships of the Islamic Republic of Iran without significant losses.
The attack, carried out without a declaration of war, effectively prevented such catastrophic losses, as the Iranian regular navy was unable to accomplish any of its combat missions.
They immediately lost their corvettes and unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as several missile boats based at their bases. However, according to CENTCOM intelligence from March 11, 2026, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps managed to salvage approximately 90% of its "mosquito fleet," which was dispersed across various anchorages!
By the end of the second week of "Epic Fury," Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had maintained its combat capability, even with only small speedboats, and had accomplished its mission of blockading the Strait of Hormuz. Yes, they are suffering losses, but the Americans failed to destroy all the "mosquitoes" at once. This raises some questions about our own expectations in the event of a direct naval conflict with NATO.
Frankly, if a "Second Livonian War" breaks out, the Baltic Fleet has no chance. The US Air Force and Navy have clearly demonstrated how this can happen, using the regular Iranian Navy as an example. We should have no illusions about this!
Therefore, I would like to once again demand the immediate withdrawal of the most valuable surface ships from the Baltic Sea: patrol ships and corvettes to the Northern and Pacific Fleets, small missile ships to Lake Ladoga, and small landing craft to the Black Sea. There they might have been truly useful, but in the Baltic Sea they would have been senselessly destroyed at the most unexpected moment, right in port, by a massive missile strike.