Showing posts with label Iranian Navy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iranian Navy. Show all posts
Monday, March 10, 2014

Pirates: Not Dead Yet

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According to the Office of Naval Intelligence Piracy Analysis and Warning Weekly (PAWW) Report for 27 February – 5 March 2014 there stil...
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Saturday, February 08, 2014

Oh my gosh! Iran's Navy to threaten to sail into the Atlantic Ocean

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The ever awesome Iranian navy is venturing forth to touch the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, thus striking dread and fear in the hearts and ...
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Thursday, January 09, 2014

The Decline of Somali Pirates and the Rise of Private Security

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As is now well-documented, Somali pirates had an awful 2013 - recording no hijackings. Perhaps they are "lying doggo" waiting...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Iran Announces Naval Deployment to East Asia - Even - Oh, Wow! - A Submarine

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Iranian Tareq-class Sub A part of Iran's Navy gets to go a'sailing, reported by Farsnews : The (Iranian) Navy will dispatch th...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Somali Pirates: Iran says, "Iran Navy saves cargo ship attacked by pirates"

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Sabalan The wondrous Iran forces of naval might have done it again! Or, as Press TV (the state news mouthpiece) says, "Iran Navy ...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Iran: Grand Scale Press Puffery

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Iranian press releases concerning their military capabilities never cease to amaze - much like the lurid covers of the lamented World Week...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Iran Fights Pirates -- Better than Anyone Else! Ever! ... Yeah, that's it

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From Iran's Fars News Agency - "Navy Thwarts Attempted Hijack of 2 Iranian Cargo Ships" : Lieutenant Commander of the Ir...
Friday, April 06, 2012

Somali Pirates: Iran Navy Rescues Crew of Chinese Ship, Captures Pirates

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See initial report of hijacking here . Now, it appears the Iranians have come to the rescue as reported in "Hijacked ship crew memb...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Somali Pirates and Iran's Massive Navy - Unbelievable!

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Well, it really is unbelievable but according to Iran's PressTV ""Iran's Navy successfully stops another piracy take over...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Somali Pirates: The Defense Strikes Back

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FGS Koln Numerous reports of naval vessels and air units from several different navies taking action against Somali pirates. First, a G...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Somali Pirates: NATO Alert 29 Sept 11

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 Let me be the latest to warn that the weather soon will be improving in the upper Indian Ocean area and when the seas calm a bit, the Somal...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Iran: Atlantic Deployment Off U.S. Coast? Come right ahead. We'll be here waiting.

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Something was making my "SWO sense"* tingle, and my humor alerts were ringing, and then, well then, I read this- Iran says could ...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Iranian Subs Go to Sea = Yawn

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Iranian Kilo-Class Sub Much ado has been made about an announced sortie of Iranian ships (and wow!, maybe a submarine) in the Red Sea, se...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Iranian Ships to Enter Mediterranean

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Iranian Navy Ship Kharg (AOR-431), an oiler/ammuntion ship For the first time since 1979, it appears that a couple of Iranian Navy ships ...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Somali Pirates: Starting the Week with a Bang

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As of Sunday, reports of Pirate Action Groups and attacks from here put on a map: In case you missed it, the Indian Navy and Coast Guard...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Iran: New, Iranian-made "destroyer"

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Iran is in the warship building business, as reported in Iran navy launches domestically made destroyer : Iran's Navy on Friday took the...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Somali Pirates: Iran says pirate attack thwarted

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Reported as Iran ships foil hijack attempt in Gulf of Aden : Amid Iran's efforts to cooperate with the international community in protec...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Iran to send two warships to Somalia to fight pirates

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Now that pirate season is winding down with the monsoon season arriving, Iran is sending a couple of warships to the area for "five mon...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Iran: Iranian Navy goes "international"

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Iran has announced its "international navy" here : Iran has deployed naval ships to the high seas as part of a full-fledged campai...