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Ind told including fa-18s. they are being escorted by iranian warships. there are now a total of nine u.s. navy warships, you mentioned, and three support shippers operating in the area stretching from the southern red sea to the arabian sea. the u.s. warships are entering a u.n. -- enforcing a u.n. arms embargo against yemen passed by 14 nations excluding russia last week. iranians deny, of course narcs that convoy is carrying weapons but the u.s. intercepted weapons en route to the houthis as far back at 2013. shep. >> aircraft carrier and 11 other ships move into a the area where iran and s...
>> i think the president directionally is going in the right way. we are putting in military advisors. they will establish two joint operating centers, one in northern iraq and the heart of the sunni-al qaeda effort and one in baghdad to do joint planning and intelligence gathering and collection. they are going to put some of these people with individual brigade commanders, the brigade they think are most likely to be in the for owe fronts of the fighting. and they are conducting extensive reconnaissance using f.a.-18s and:3-rbgs surveil -- and p3 surveillance. we are late and we may be too s...
It wasn't flight planned. it wasn't part of routine airways traffic. there were a lot of reasons why his air defense fighters, his fa-18s, f-5s should have gone airborne to look at that. the important thing is it is not just the case of an unidentified blip and launch some fighters. there's a plethora of emergency procedures that area radar controllers can take before that point. like getting in touch with the aircraft and so on the on and so forth. it's a dangerous move not to have interrogated this in some way. >> mary, i want your reaction to this as an investigator and former inspector gen...
Very much to mine the sea lanes there. in addition, they have some kilo class submarines run very, very talent, difficult to detect, even with our current capability. but just their saying, just their threatening to do it made everybody jittery and just by saying it, it will restrict the flow of commerce through the strait. >> putting a carrier in the region is really not an option, in the strait itself. >> no, no, no. you're absolutely right. we can't turn it around. it is so narrow we can't get a carrier strike force turning around in the strait. it is not going in the strait. don't forget w...