Navy Stops Smugglers With Russian Weapons of Somali Coast
Share This: On February 12, two vessels were boarded and searched off the coast of Somalia. The boarding force, which had deployed from the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), searched the vessels and found a cache of weapons. According to a brief by the Department of Defense, the cache consisted of “thousands of AK-47 assault rifles, light machine guns, heavy sniper rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers (RPGs), and crew-served weapons.” According to the report, the Churchill’s VBSS (Visit, Board, Search and Seizure) team discovered the weapons while condu...
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