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RT THE ISLANDER (@IslanderWORLD)🇮🇷🇺🇸 Three American destroyers just took a second brutal pounding in the Strait of Hormuz.The USS Truxtun, USS Mason, and USS Rafael Peralta came under what U.S. officials themselves called a fiercer, more sustained Iranian assault than the barrage they faced only hours earlier. Missiles, drones, and swarms of fast attack boats closed in tight enough that the warships had to unload everything they had — five inch naval guns, CIWS, Hellfire missiles from Apache helicopters, .5 ...