BZZZZZZT --- B.S. WARNING!!! Mine Neutralization

Obsolete...

Navy Has No Silver Bullets to Defeat Mini-Submarines, Underwater Mines - Shame, shame!
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Why, are mines something new? No, not even to Iran.
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Then why would the Navy have no silver bullets for a critical chokepoint of global trade and oil tankers, the Strait of Hormuz, shut down by the suspected, or real, presence of sea mines?
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Pick the best answer:
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a) DARPA has been asleep at its development wheel.
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b) Navy considers mines obsolete, so countermeasures (silver bullets) would never be needed.
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c) Brains at the Naval War College have not gamed such a scenario in modern times.
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d) The public assertion is false because the Navy wishes Iran to remain foolishly overconfident in its military strategy.
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e) None of the above. The question is entirely inapplicable. A much, much better question would be, "What readers are intended to believe such crap?
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ANSWER: e) Proof: When, and if Iran ever tries to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

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For further study (public examples only):

1- Autonomous mine neutralization system (May 18, 2004)

2- Expendable Mine Neutralization System (2007)

3- Raytheon AN/ASQ-235 Airborne Mine Neutralization Systems (October 11, 2010)

4- NAVAL ROVS (May 01, 1997)

5- Raytheon Awarded $14 Million for Airborne Mine Neutralization System (Oct. 7, 2010)
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Submarines are always silent and strange.