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DDGs aren't designed for escort duty. Gee, wouldn't it be nice to have some frigates right about now? But alas, we don't. And you want to risk a hundred million dollar tanker and it's cargo on 5" accuracy? Oh, hell no. It proved spotty in the Red Sea, thus the reliance on missile interdiction and DDGs running dangerously low on missiles. And the drones just kept coming. Couple that with drone swarms Iran is capable of and I'm sure you see the problem.

Air interdiction is also tricky. You've got to be in the right places at the right times and the damn things are tough to pick up long range. So vectoring air assets becomes a problem. Want to risk a tanker or two on "where they hell did those come from?!" vectoring? And those air assets are also going to take fire. You think the Iranians are just going to sit and watch the show? Not likely.

As far as electronic drone countermeasures, do you really think the US Navy absorbed the lessons from Ukraine by now? Not the Navy I once served in. It usually takes getting smacked in the head for the current war and its doctrines to sink in, get trained on, and become proficient at.

And mine clearing isn't as straightforward as you think. Particularly under fire. Either with surface or air assets. Particularly since it's not a glamorous occupation and training in real world situations may be quite thin. That's usually the case for training that's not enjoyable. And assets are limited. Lets not forget that.

Seems your whole premise involves turning the straight itself into a hot war zone. That's really not going to work. And what happens when we try to transfer "paper" understanding to the real world. And why any commercial ship owner with any sense isn't going to go for such.