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Pakistan, UK conduct joint naval drill

The Wire 04 Nov 2021
According to a statement, the drill, which covered a “wide range of naval operations,” was held on the completion of the visit of the UK Navy’s ship HMS Richmond to Karachi port ...
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Russian navy tracks US ship Mount Whitney in Black Sea

Gulf Daily News 04 Nov 2021
The Russian navy has started tracking a US naval command vessel in the Black Sea, news ... The US Navy said on Monday that the USS Mount Whitney had arrived in Istanbul and that it would soon join forces with other ships in the Black Sea ... The Russian navy has started tracking the U.S.
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Vietnam seeks information from Iran about seized oil tanker

The Associated Press 04 Nov 2021
Ship-tracking data analyzed by The Associated Press from MarineTraffic.com showed the vessel still off Iran’s southern port of Bandar Abbas on Tuesday ... Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet ... Tehran also did not provide the ship’s name, or other details, nor any explanation of why the Navy might target it.
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What was the point of Iran’s “fake news” IRGC ship raid?

The Jerusalem Post 04 Nov 2021
Then word came that it involved the Gulf of Oman and the IRGC navy ... IRGC siezes ship near Bu Musa Island, Iran (credit ... They note that IRGC ships swarmed the SOTHYS tanker and that the goal of the IRGC was to attract the attention of the US Navy. The Navy responded because this was a commercial ship ... It has harassed US ships in the past.
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Officials tell AP that Iran seized Vietnamese oil tanker

Longview News-Journal 04 Nov 2021
Ship-tracking data analyzed by the AP from MarineTraffic.com showed the vessel still off Iran’s southern port of Bandar Abbas on Tuesday ... Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet ... Tehran also did not provide the ship’s name, or other details, nor any explanation of why the Navy might target it.
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Iran seizes an oil tanker, but whose tanker is disputed

Gulf News 04 Nov 2021
US and Iranian officials both said on Wednesday that Iran had seized an oil tanker in the Sea of Oman last month after an encounter with the US Navy, but the two sides gave widely differing accounts of whose tanker it was and what, exactly, had happened ... He described it as just some “sporty activity” between the Guard and the Navy ship.
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A tale of Iranian naval heroics denied by US amid rising tensions

The Arab Weekly 04 Nov 2021
Tehran also did not provide details of the ship’s name, nor any explanation of why the Navy might target it ... Separately, American officials said that several drones, believed to be Iranian, had come close to the US Navy amphibious assault ship Essex in the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours.
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Joe Diaz

Williamson Herald 04 Nov 2021
Joe Diaz was inspired to join the Navy when he heard the story of the five Sullivan brothers, who all served and died after the USS Juneau, a light cruiser, was badly damaged during the Battle of Guadalcanal during World War II on Nov ... After Vietnam, Diaz remained in the Navy and saw the world on the deck of a carrier.
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Can US carriers survive an all-out attack from China?

Asiatimes 04 Nov 2021
China is forever touting the array of guided missiles its weaponeers have devised to pummel US Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs) ... This is why ships, especially US Navy aircraft carriers, are engineered with extensive, layered networks of integrated defenses.
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US rejects Iranian claim of naval interaction in Gulf of Oman

Henry Herald 04 Nov 2021
Iran had said that US forces boarded a tanker, unloaded crude oil onto another tanker, before IRGC Navy carried out a "heliborne operation on the stolen ships deck" and directed it back to Iranian territorial waters ... Two US officials said the Iranian forces then sailed the ship into Iran's territorial waters.
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Royal Navy carrier welcomes Olympic athletes on board

Belfast Telegraph 04 Nov 2021
After lunch with the commanding officer, Captain Steve Higham, the athletes were taken on a tour of the ship which included meeting some of the Navy’s elite athletes including powerlifter Petty Officer Wes McGuinness, ranked seventh in the world in his category.
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Iran seizes Vietnam tanker

The Manila Times 04 Nov 2021
Ship-tracking data analyzed by the AP from MarineTraffic.com showed the vessel still off Iran's southern port of Bandar Abbas on Tuesday ... Tehran also did not provide the ship's name or other details, nor any explanation of why the Navy might target it ... ship patrolled the waters.
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US, Iran dispute facts of ship incident near Oman

Taipei Times 04 Nov 2021
... last week by the US Navy to seize the vessel carrying its oil ... An image provided on Wednesday by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shows a US Navy ship, left, and two IRGC speed boats, center, amid the seizure of a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
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Nuclear-powered ships make waves in Glasgow

Splash24/7 04 Nov 2021
When it comes to merchant shipping, which has entered a crucial decade of energy transition, there has never before been such strong backing for atomic power as today with multiple projects around the world in various stages of advanced development ... Commercial shipping cannot use ...
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Lawton native serves as member of 'US Navy's 'Silent Service'

The Lawton Constitution 04 Nov 2021
Fast-attack submarines are designed to hunt down and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships; strike targets ashore with cruise missiles; carry and deliver Navy SEALs; conduct intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions; and engage in mine warfare ... “This work is essential to uphold the number one mission of the Navy.
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