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The $678 million-apiece fifth-generation F-22 was introduced in 2005, and has never been exported, ostensibly due to concerns about the leak of its advanced technology....

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel fired 30 warning rounds at Iranian boats that came within 150 yards of U.S. ships transiting throug the Strait of Hormuz.

by Tyler Durden Monday, May 10, 2021 - 06:10 PM A rare direct live fire encounter took place Monday in the Strait of Hormuz between Iranian fast-attack boats and US naval warships. The Iranian vessels came dangerously close to multiple US ships during the incident in the vital waterway off Irans coast. The IRGC fast boats departed only after some 30 warning shots were fired by a US Coast Guard vessel that had been escorting the naval group, which included up to six US Navy vessels and the guid...

U.S. Navy releases footage of incident in Strait of Hormuz with Iranian Navy Forces 6 hours ago U.S. Naval Forces Central Command has released footage of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) on 10 May. On Monday, IRGCN’s fast in-shore attack craft (FIAC), a type of speedboat armed with machine guns, conducted unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers and failed to exercise due regard for the safety of U.S. forces as required under inte...

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley asks, ‘Where are the black generals?’ Jamie McIntyre © Provided by Washington Examiner DOD header 2020 ‘WE MUST GET BETTER’: Before the nation’s top military officer swore in 21 new second lieutenants to the Army at a commissioning ceremony at Howard University, one of the nation’s premier Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., he paused to reflect on the U.S. military’s egalitarian ethos, as well...

NAVCENT, U.S. Fifth Fleet, CMF Change of Command Photo By Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel Hinton | 210505-N-KC128-0168 NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY BAHRAIN (May 5, 2021) Vice Adm. Sam Paparo, left, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), U.S. 5th Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), is relieved by Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, right, during a change of command ceremony presided over by Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, onboard Naval Support A...

USNI News Paparo Takes Command of U.S. Pacific Fleet, Cooper Now Leading U.S. 5th Fleet May 6, 2021 4:52 PM Vice Adm. Sam Paparo, left, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), U.S. 5th Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), is relieved by Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, right, during a change of command ceremony presided over by Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, onboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, on May 5, 2021. US NAvy Photo The former commander of U.S. nav...

40% of all civilian casualties from airstrikes in Afghanistan – almost 1,600 – in the last five years were children Format Between 2016-2020 (inclusive) there have, in Afghanistan, been: 3,977 total civilian casualties from airstrikes: 2,122 civilians killed, 1,855 civilians injured 1,598 total child casualties from airstrikes: 785 children killed, 813 children injured 40% of all civilian airstrike casualties were children (1,598 of 3,977) 37% of those civilians killed by airstrikes were c...

A former Cape Cod-based Coast Guard cutter had a tense encounter with an Iranian vessel earlier this month in the southern Persian Gulf. The Monomoy, whose homeport was previously Coast Guard Station Woods Hole, was conducting a routine security patrol April 2 with another U.S. patrol vessel when the Harth 55, attached to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, repeatedly crossed the bows of the U.S. vessels at extremely close range, according to Rebecca Rebarich, spokesperson ...

Home» News»France Australia UK and US Conduct MCM Exercise in the Arabian Gulf ARABIAN GULF (April 21, 2021) - A multinalional group of mine countermeasure ships from the French Marine Nationale, UK Royal Navy, U.S. Navy and a MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter, attached to the “Blackhawks” of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM-15), operate in formation during exercise Artemis Trident 21 in the Arabian Gulf, April 21. Artemis Trident 21 is a multilateral mine countermeasures exercise...