US cuts back its air cover for tankers in Hormuz—report Since early September, the US has restricted its protection window in the Strait of #Hormuz to just two designated time slots per day, the FT reports. The change was communicated by the US naval coordination center to maritime advisers, with tanker operators encouraged to plan their transits around specific departure times — 9am, for example — if they want to be covered by US aircraft. Until recently