How marines could try to storm Kharg Island

US strike force thought to include 3,000 paratroopers and 2,000 Marines aboard the USS Tripoli, 3,000 back-up Marines with USS Abraham Lincoln plus air power possibly backed by Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia

Attack on Kharg Island would begin with prolonged bombing

US Marines from 31st Marine Expecditionary Unit would land on Kharg on Ospreys

Paratroopers from the elite 82nd Airborne have been dispatcxhed to the region and may well drop behind Iranian defences

US troops would move quickly to secure the oil storage

Iranian troops may keep to high ground to shoot down US troops on the beach

US strike force thought to include 3,000 paratroopers and 2,000 Marines aboard the USS Tripoli, 3,000 back-up Marines with USS Abraham Lincoln plus air power possibly backed by Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia

Attack on Kharg Island would begin with prolonged bombing

US Marines from 31st Marine Expecditionary Unit would land on Kharg on Ospreys

Paratroopers from the elite 82nd Airborne have been dispatcxhed to the region and may well drop behind Iranian defences

US troops would move quickly to secure the oil storage

Iranian troops may keep to high ground to shoot down US troops on the beach

Attack on Kharg Island would begin with prolonged bombing

US Marines from 31st Marine Expecditionary Unit would land on Kharg on Ospreys

Paratroopers from the elite 82nd Airborne have been dispatcxhed to the region and may well drop behind Iranian defences

US troops would move quickly to secure the oil storage

Iranian troops may keep to high ground to shoot down US troops on the beach

US strike force thought to include 3,000 paratroopers and 2,000 Marines aboard the USS Tripoli, 3,000 back-up Marines with USS Abraham Lincoln plus air power possibly backed by Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia

Iran will aim to fire rockets and missiles from the

coastal mountain ranges

The ‘Toll Booth’