Chinese exercises in the South China Sea last month, and the strong US response, show these disputed waters will not soon be calm. While the focus has largely been on ..
Tag: Iran
Years of international sanctions against Iran have obliged the nation’s maritime force providers to engage in large-scale reverse engineering. A wide range of foreign ..
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) very recently commissioned a 150-metre special operations support ship. The ship, Shahid Roudaki, which has ..
In an unprecedented show of strength, Iran’s Islamic Republican Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) has put on a display of what an IRGCN spokesperson said were 340 recently ..
A South Korean-flagged commercial vessel was seized by Iranian paramilitary forces in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, January 4, officials in Seoul have confirmed. The ..
South Africa may be facing an unholy mix of insurgency, radicalism and major power competition in the Western Indian Ocean. Much attention is given to the rivalry between ..
The Indonesian Coast Guard (BAKAMLA) last week seized two oil tankers – one Iranian-flagged, the other from Panama – inside Indonesia’s waters. The two tankers are ..
Two recent naval exercises demonstrate the potential for Russia-China cooperation in the Indian Ocean, and how the two present a much greater threat to a continued US ..
While operating under Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) on Thursday, October 15, the US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill provided assistance to a motor ..
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