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The United States launched air strikes against Iran after Iranian forces targeted commercial tankers with cruise missiles, self-propelled guided weapons that navigate at low altitude, under their own power, to a designated target.
Donald Trump said Washington would hit the Islamic Republic "hard" on Monday and Tuesday nights. What a tanker attack does A tanker is a large vessel built to carry oil or other liquid cargo across open water.
These ships sit outside the category of military hardware, which is part of why attacking them carries a distinct kind of weight. They move product, not personnel.
When they are struck, the disruption runs downstream to refineries and the markets that price fuel, even before anyone calculates the physical damage to the hull. Cruise missiles are guided, not lobbed.
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