Fatigue is setting in as a U.S. aircraft carrier nears its ninth month waging the most intense running sea battle since World War II
A US aircraft carrier and its crew have fought Houthi attacks for months. How long can it last?
Tag: Red Sea
US and Israel to attack Iran?
Littoral Combat Ship Still Fighting to Prove Its Worth
The Littoral Combat Ship was meant to start the Navy’s operational renaissance. But a chorus of naysayers and critics have put service leaders on the defensive, insisting that the troubled program has turned a corner.
Littoral Combat Ship Still Fighting to Prove Its Worth
They’ve increased the crew size and have been training them to maintain the ships themselves rather than relying on the original contractors.
Related:
The Littoral Combat Ship: How We Got Here, and Why (PDF)
USNI Proceedings Podcast – Littoral Combat Ships: How the Navy is Employing Them (Ted LeClair, Marc Crawford, Mark Haney)
Previously:
The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”
The Navy just launched a brand new ship it doesn’t even want
USS Mason Sailor Who Went Overboard in Red Sea Declared Lost by Navy
USS Mason Sailor Who Went Overboard in Red Sea Declared Lost by Navy
Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Oriola Michael Aregbesola, who was aboard the USS Mason, went overboard on March 20, according to the Navy.
Aregbesola was assigned to the “Swamp Foxes” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 74, which was embarked on the Mason. The ship has been operating in the Red Sea alongside the Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group.
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Without witnesses, it may be difficult for the Navy to definitively determine what led to Aregbesola falling into the water.
The reasons behind most sailor overboard incidents, which unfortunately occur with some regularity, remain unknown.
Aregbesola is not the first sailor to go overboard in the past several months, either.
In January, two Navy SEALs went overboard and were later declared lost while attempting to board a ship that was discovered to be carrying Iranian missile components.
Previously:
US Military: Two US Navy SEALs Missing Off Coast of Somalia Are Dead
USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: March 25, 2024
At least some are closer to the homeland.
U.S. Coast Guard Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) are forward-deployed to the region under Patrol Forces Southwest Asia (PATFORSWA). PATFORSWA deploys Coast Guard personnel and ships with U.S. and regional naval forces throughout the Middle East. Initially deployed in 2003 to support Operation Iraqi Freedom, PATFORSWA is now a permanent presence based out of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Previously:
USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: March 18, 2024
Russian newspaper: India wants to cut off Arab oil from China, but can it?
The Indian Navy intends to build a second base in the Lakshodeep archipelago, located on the tanker route from the Gulf of Aden and the Strait of Hormuz to the Strait of Malacca.
Russian newspaper: India wants to cut off Arab oil from China, but can it?
H/T: Geopolitical Trends, w/Dr. David Oualaalou
Related:
India may cut off Arab oil supplies to China
Read More »Ansar Allah didn’t target undersea cables
At least one subsea fiber cable damaged in the Red Sea, some reports blame Houthi rebels
Last year Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) – a think tank founded by a former Israeli Intelligence officer and a political scientist described as a neoconservative and revisionist Zionist on Wikipedia – said Telegram channels reportedly affiliated with the Houthis had made implied threats against subseas cables in the Red Sea.
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New reports suggest a ship attacked by Houthi rebels may have inadvertently cut cables. Some industry observers are suggesting the Rubymar, a cargo ship heavily damaged by a recent Houthi attack, is drifting and its dragging anchor could have caused damage to the cables.
Israeli media claims that Ansar Allah targeted undersea cables
Propaganda: Houthis could cut undersea global internet cables, minister warns
The Axis of Asymmetry takes on the ‘rules-based order’
The Axis of Asymmetry is in full swing. These are the state and non-state actors employing asymmetrical moves on the global chessboard to sideline the US-led western rules-based order. And its vanguard is the Yemeni resistance movement Ansarallah.
The Axis of Asymmetry takes on the ‘rules-based order’
The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve
The Belt and Road Initiative wasn’t a sinister plot. It was a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption.
The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve (archived)
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