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In what might be the fastest “military panic cycle” since someone on Twitter once mistook a weather balloon for an alien invasion, headlines erupted across the internet this week claiming that Iran had somehow managed to “lock the sky” over the Strait of Hormuz in just three minutes.
That is roughly the time it takes most people to microwave a frozen burrito or regret posting something political on Facebook.
But according to dramatic online chatter and breathless commentators, Iran allegedly demonstrated a new capability that could threaten U.S.aircraft carriers operating in one of the world’s most sensitive waterways.
