HMS Duncan, a Royal Navy warship equipped with advanced weaponry continues its 7-month deployment in the Gulf, tasked with protecting British merchant ships from Iranian forces amid rising tensions. Everything comes to a head when they encounter an Iranian gunboat in the Strait of Hormuz, leading to a tense standoff, not helped by one of the ship's propellers failing in the dangerous waters.

Hey, you're giving me flashbacks.....and I'm too old for them :-)) During the 80s I was the CAT Team Chief for Earnest Will tanker escorts through the Persian Gulf. The Strait of Hormuz was always the tension point. During every escort we would continually monitor communications out of Bandar Abbas to determine if there was any indication of Iran sending boats out to intercept the tankers, you probably know a bit about that. I can't remember if we even gave anything that did come out the honor of calling it a gunship. They were simply high speed boats with armed personnel. It's also worth noting that back then CNN hadn't removed the News from their name. They would often have helicopters in the air and it wasn't uncommon for us in the command center in Florida to have one of our screens tuned to CNN to actually watch the operation we were directing. Something that's common now but certainly not then.

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