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"USA is readying plans to place armed US Marines and navy sailors aboard commercial ships "
That sort of thing normally doesn't end well - there are all sorts of issues about the non-combatants on the ships, the ships themselves aren't designed to fight and the poor sods selected are really sacrificial lambs if it's anything other than a bunch of Somali type pirates. If its quasi state actors on the other side you can finish up hostages.
That sort of thing normally doesn't end well - there are all sorts of issues about the non-combatants on the ships, the ships themselves aren't designed to fight and the poor sods selected are really sacrificial lambs if it's anything other than a bunch of Somali type pirates. If its quasi state actors on the other side you can finish up hostages.
Does anyone remember the “reflagging” of tankers to the US registry during the Iran/Iraq War?
A friend was a Tanker Capt. during that period and his ship was attacked during the war.
He had some interesting tales to tell of that period of his career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanker_War
Unrelated question…anyone have a good link to Admiralty Law…Specifically “The duty to render aid” and “The right to claim safe haven”.
They used to be an easy google or other search engine search but I was trying to find them the other day and aside from links to multitudinous $$$ Law firms I couldn’t find anything useful.
It all came up in a discussion about how Admiralty Law was and is also applicable to aviation.
(My search was started due to a recent event where a pilot, faced with rapidly developing thunderstorms, landed his small aircraft on a private airstrip as his safest option. The airstrip is PPR ( Prior Permission Required ) and the owner went ballistic, threatening to charge the fellow with trespass and demanding a large landing fee for landing on his grass airstrip. The airstrip is listed in the chart supplement , has an identifier and appears on aviation charts.
This line of thunderstorms did produce some violent weather including hail and a small tornado touchdown about 40 miles away which caused significant damage.
A friend was a Tanker Capt. during that period and his ship was attacked during the war.
He had some interesting tales to tell of that period of his career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanker_War
Unrelated question…anyone have a good link to Admiralty Law…Specifically “The duty to render aid” and “The right to claim safe haven”.
They used to be an easy google or other search engine search but I was trying to find them the other day and aside from links to multitudinous $$$ Law firms I couldn’t find anything useful.
It all came up in a discussion about how Admiralty Law was and is also applicable to aviation.
(My search was started due to a recent event where a pilot, faced with rapidly developing thunderstorms, landed his small aircraft on a private airstrip as his safest option. The airstrip is PPR ( Prior Permission Required ) and the owner went ballistic, threatening to charge the fellow with trespass and demanding a large landing fee for landing on his grass airstrip. The airstrip is listed in the chart supplement , has an identifier and appears on aviation charts.
This line of thunderstorms did produce some violent weather including hail and a small tornado touchdown about 40 miles away which caused significant damage.
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The War of Words continues.
A bit more at the article, but it's mostly hot air.
Pentagon denies supposed incident with Iranian navy in Strait of Hormuz (msn.com)
But the tensions have ratcheted up.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it threatened to open fire on U.S. Marine Corps and Navy helicopters covering a group of American warships as they passed through the volatile Strait of Hormuz recently, prompting them to land. The U.S. Navy told The War Zone that no U.S. helicopters headed back to their ships while supporting the transit for any other reason than to refuel.
Pentagon denies supposed incident with Iranian navy in Strait of Hormuz (msn.com)
But the tensions have ratcheted up.
In another bit of aviation content: Iran's Reaper variant. What the heck, if you are going to copy, copy the best.
Iran unveils armed drone resembling America's MQ-9 Reaper and says it could potentially reach Israel | AP News
In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Ebrahim Raisi, second right, listens to Chief of Aviation Industries of Armed Forces Gen. Afshin Khajehfard, as Defense Minister Gen. Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani, right, listens, during a ceremony unveiling a drone called the Mohajer-10, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency published a photograph of the drone, called the Mohajer-10, on display at a conference marking Defense Industry Day with what appeared to be smoke-machine fog underneath it.
“Mohajer” means “immigrant” in Farsi and has been a drone line manufactured by the Islamic Republic since 1985.
IRNA said the drone is able to fly up to 24,000 feet with a speed of 210 kph (130 mph), carrying a bomb payload of up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds). It also said the drone could carry electronic surveillance equipment and a camera. Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also viewed the drone on Tuesday.
“Today, we can firmly introduce Iran as an advanced and technologic nation to the world,” Raisi said in comments aired on state television.
He reiterated Iran’s stance about friendly relations with “all countries in the world,” adding that Iran’s armed forces will cut off any hand that will reaches out in an attempt to invade Iran, state TV reported.
The Associated Press could not immediately verify the claims about the drone’s capabilities, though an arm of state television shared a video of it taking off from a runway. Long-range drones like the Reaper also require ground stations and satellite communications.
Officials in Israel, which flies its own long-range, high endurance drones, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Iran has in the past captured U.S. drones or pieces of them, but there’s no evidence that it has taken a General Atomics’ Reaper, which is flown by the U.S. Air Force and allied American nations as a “hunter-killer” drone that can operate at high altitudes for long hours and follow a target before attacking. North Korea in July showed off drones mirroring the Reaper, possibly designed from publicly available information about the aircraft.
In December 2011, Iran seized an RQ-170 Sentinel flown by the CIA to monitor Iranian nuclear sites after it entered Iranian airspace from neighboring Afghanistan. Iran later reverse-engineered the drone to create their own variants.
In 2019, Iran shot down a U.S. Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk in the Strait of Hormuz amid high tensions over its collapsed nuclear deal with world powers.
The Reaper also carries special significance for Iran, as one reportedly carried out the 2020 strike in Baghdad that killed Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian general in its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Iran separately said it had provided two types of ballistic missiles to its army and the Guard on Tuesday, including one named for Soleimani.
In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Ebrahim Raisi, second right, listens to Chief of Aviation Industries of Armed Forces Gen. Afshin Khajehfard, as Defense Minister Gen. Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani, right, listens, during a ceremony unveiling a drone called the Mohajer-10, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency published a photograph of the drone, called the Mohajer-10, on display at a conference marking Defense Industry Day with what appeared to be smoke-machine fog underneath it.
“Mohajer” means “immigrant” in Farsi and has been a drone line manufactured by the Islamic Republic since 1985.
IRNA said the drone is able to fly up to 24,000 feet with a speed of 210 kph (130 mph), carrying a bomb payload of up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds). It also said the drone could carry electronic surveillance equipment and a camera. Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also viewed the drone on Tuesday.
“Today, we can firmly introduce Iran as an advanced and technologic nation to the world,” Raisi said in comments aired on state television.
He reiterated Iran’s stance about friendly relations with “all countries in the world,” adding that Iran’s armed forces will cut off any hand that will reaches out in an attempt to invade Iran, state TV reported.
The Associated Press could not immediately verify the claims about the drone’s capabilities, though an arm of state television shared a video of it taking off from a runway. Long-range drones like the Reaper also require ground stations and satellite communications.
Officials in Israel, which flies its own long-range, high endurance drones, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Iran has in the past captured U.S. drones or pieces of them, but there’s no evidence that it has taken a General Atomics’ Reaper, which is flown by the U.S. Air Force and allied American nations as a “hunter-killer” drone that can operate at high altitudes for long hours and follow a target before attacking. North Korea in July showed off drones mirroring the Reaper, possibly designed from publicly available information about the aircraft.
In December 2011, Iran seized an RQ-170 Sentinel flown by the CIA to monitor Iranian nuclear sites after it entered Iranian airspace from neighboring Afghanistan. Iran later reverse-engineered the drone to create their own variants.
In 2019, Iran shot down a U.S. Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk in the Strait of Hormuz amid high tensions over its collapsed nuclear deal with world powers.
The Reaper also carries special significance for Iran, as one reportedly carried out the 2020 strike in Baghdad that killed Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian general in its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Iran separately said it had provided two types of ballistic missiles to its army and the Guard on Tuesday, including one named for Soleimani.
"In another bit of aviation content: Iran's Reaper variant. What the heck, if you are going to copy, copy the best."
Absolutely - why take all that pain of re-inventing the wheel. Ever seen the PLA(N) deck crews on their carriers? Must have spent years watching "Top Gun"
Absolutely - why take all that pain of re-inventing the wheel. Ever seen the PLA(N) deck crews on their carriers? Must have spent years watching "Top Gun"
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...r-nuclear-deal
UK, France and Germany refuse to lift sanctions on Iran under nuclear deal
Tehran in ‘too serious a breach’ of 2015 deal to lift sanctions under clause that would allow ballistic missile trade
UK, France and Germany refuse to lift sanctions on Iran under nuclear deal
Tehran in ‘too serious a breach’ of 2015 deal to lift sanctions under clause that would allow ballistic missile trade
Article in last weeks Economist reckons the bulk of the population has given up on the mullahs - they're not about to revolt immediately but it now just a sullen get -through-today attitude everywhere
Perhaps not just in Iran.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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An unknown object crashed following by an explosion in Gorgan, Golestan Province of Iran.
Iranian media report that a "missile test" gone wrong and caused the incident.
I mean, you see huge shrapnel pieces in the city, you see unexploded 107mm, what kind of "missile test" were they conducting?
Someone ironically said: "They mistakenly targeted the Gorgan with missiles"
Iranian media report that a "missile test" gone wrong and caused the incident.
I mean, you see huge shrapnel pieces in the city, you see unexploded 107mm, what kind of "missile test" were they conducting?
Someone ironically said: "They mistakenly targeted the Gorgan with missiles"
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...suit-5fx7pmgdp
Saudi Arabia: If Iran gets a nuclear weapon so will we
Saudi Arabia will develop a nuclear weapon if Iran, its main regional rival, succeeds in producing one of its own, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said.
In an interview last night with Fox News, the Saudi crown prince and de facto leader of the country said that he would not allow Tehran to be the only confirmed nuclear power in the Middle East.
If they get one, we have to get one, he said when asked how Riyadh would react if Iran was confirmed to be a nuclear power, threatening what could become a new nuclear arms race
Saudi Arabia: If Iran gets a nuclear weapon so will we
Saudi Arabia will develop a nuclear weapon if Iran, its main regional rival, succeeds in producing one of its own, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said.
In an interview last night with Fox News, the Saudi crown prince and de facto leader of the country said that he would not allow Tehran to be the only confirmed nuclear power in the Middle East.
If they get one, we have to get one, he said when asked how Riyadh would react if Iran was confirmed to be a nuclear power, threatening what could become a new nuclear arms race
"Saudi crown prince and de facto leader of the country said that he would not allow Tehran to be the only confirmed nuclear power in the Middle East."
he's forgotten the Israelis. and Pakistan - who were in CENTO for a while
he's forgotten the Israelis. and Pakistan - who were in CENTO for a while
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...suit-5fx7pmgdp
Saudi Arabia: If Iran gets a nuclear weapon so will we
“If they get one, we have to get one,” he said when asked how Riyadh would react if Iran was confirmed to be a nuclear power, threatening what could become a new nuclear arms race……
Saudi Arabia: If Iran gets a nuclear weapon so will we
“If they get one, we have to get one,” he said when asked how Riyadh would react if Iran was confirmed to be a nuclear power, threatening what could become a new nuclear arms race……
The folks in Pakistan could doubtless use a cash infusion, and so will be able to provide a few at a reasonable price.
Who's Next?
Makes perfect sense to me.
The folks in Pakistan could doubtless use a cash infusion, and so will be able to provide a few at a reasonable price.
Who's Next?
https://youtu.be/oRLON3ddZIw
The folks in Pakistan could doubtless use a cash infusion, and so will be able to provide a few at a reasonable price.
Who's Next?
https://youtu.be/oRLON3ddZIw
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Iran and their Houthi proxies are expanding the conflict to the economic zone ... I think that the J Post is reasonably OK source, but add grains of salt if need be.
The Israeli army has confirmed that the Yemeni political-military movement, Houthi, hijacked the ship Galaxy Leader. The incident occurred near Yemen in the southern Red Sea. "This is a severe event at a global level. It involves a ship that departed Turkey, headed for India, bearing an international civilian crew, without any Israelis," reported the Tel Aviv armed forces.
On Sunday, the Yemeni Houthi militia, an ally of Iran, seized a merchant ship in the Red Sea.
An Israeli Businessman Has Shares in the Company
The ship, registered under the Bahamian flag, is operated by Japan but is owned by a British company. This company is partially owned by the Israeli businessman Rami Unger. The office of the Israeli prime minister referred to the incident as "another act of Iranian terror." The merchant ship, the Galaxy Leader, transporting cargo from Turkey to India, did not carry any crew members from Israel, as the "Jerusalem Post" reported.
Netanyahu Accuses Iran
As reported by Reuters, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described this event as "another Iranian act of terrorism." The statement emphasized that this is proof of Iran's escalating hostile actions against citizens of the free world, compromising the safety of international navigation.
Israeli Ships in the Crosshairs
Reports on the news channel associated with the Houthis suggest that not only ships flying the Israeli flag will be attacked but also those owned or operated by Israeli companies.
The "Jerusalem Post" indicated that vessels carrying cargo owned by Israelis or even those partially owned by them could become targets. The newspaper stressed that "such a development would alter the nature of the hijacking from seizing small cargo during the war to acts of piracy."
On Sunday, the Yemeni Houthi militia, an ally of Iran, seized a merchant ship in the Red Sea.
An Israeli Businessman Has Shares in the Company
The ship, registered under the Bahamian flag, is operated by Japan but is owned by a British company. This company is partially owned by the Israeli businessman Rami Unger. The office of the Israeli prime minister referred to the incident as "another act of Iranian terror." The merchant ship, the Galaxy Leader, transporting cargo from Turkey to India, did not carry any crew members from Israel, as the "Jerusalem Post" reported.
Netanyahu Accuses Iran
As reported by Reuters, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described this event as "another Iranian act of terrorism." The statement emphasized that this is proof of Iran's escalating hostile actions against citizens of the free world, compromising the safety of international navigation.
Israeli Ships in the Crosshairs
Reports on the news channel associated with the Houthis suggest that not only ships flying the Israeli flag will be attacked but also those owned or operated by Israeli companies.
The "Jerusalem Post" indicated that vessels carrying cargo owned by Israelis or even those partially owned by them could become targets. The newspaper stressed that "such a development would alter the nature of the hijacking from seizing small cargo during the war to acts of piracy."
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Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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Footage of Houthi forces hijacking the ship Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea yesterday.
Reminder that the #Israel linked ship Galaxy Leader passed close to the Iranian IRGC 'forward base' ship stationed in Red Sea shortly before its seizure by Houthi Movement in Yemen. #GALAXY_LEADER
IRGC has had ships stationed there years: hisutton.com/Saviz.html
Reminder that the #Israel linked ship Galaxy Leader passed close to the Iranian IRGC 'forward base' ship stationed in Red Sea shortly before its seizure by Houthi Movement in Yemen. #GALAXY_LEADER
IRGC has had ships stationed there years: hisutton.com/Saviz.html
IRGC vessel Behshad; would be a pity if something were to happen to it.
Praying Mantis, part Deux.
Is it coming?
Praying Mantis, part Deux.
Is it coming?
More fun in Iraq but the AC-130's may have dealt with the attackers. Iranian-backed militias are getting busy.
U.S. forces stationed at Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq were attacked early Tuesday prompting a U.S. military aircraft to strike back, officials said.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Iran-backed militias used close-range ballistic missiles against U.S. and coalition forces, resulting in "several non-serious injuries and some minor damage to infrastructure."
Reuters, citing two U.S. officials, reported that the attack resulted in eight injuries.
A U.S. military AC-130 aircraft in the area conducted a self-defense strike against an Iranian-backed militia vehicle and personnel involved in the attack, resulting in some "hostile fatalities."
U.S. forces have been attacked approximately 66 times since October 17, including 32 times in Iraq and 34 times in Syria. U.S. personnel have sustained approximately 62 injuries, not including Tuesday’s attack, which is still being evaluated.
The attacks that began on October 17 by Iraqi militia groups have reportedly been linked to the United States’ support for Israel in its retaliation against the Palestinian militant group Hamas, following its attack on Israel earlier in the month.
Tuesday's strike was the first reported by the U.S. in Iraq in more than two years.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Iran-backed militias used close-range ballistic missiles against U.S. and coalition forces, resulting in "several non-serious injuries and some minor damage to infrastructure."
Reuters, citing two U.S. officials, reported that the attack resulted in eight injuries.
A U.S. military AC-130 aircraft in the area conducted a self-defense strike against an Iranian-backed militia vehicle and personnel involved in the attack, resulting in some "hostile fatalities."
U.S. forces have been attacked approximately 66 times since October 17, including 32 times in Iraq and 34 times in Syria. U.S. personnel have sustained approximately 62 injuries, not including Tuesday’s attack, which is still being evaluated.
The attacks that began on October 17 by Iraqi militia groups have reportedly been linked to the United States’ support for Israel in its retaliation against the Palestinian militant group Hamas, following its attack on Israel earlier in the month.
Tuesday's strike was the first reported by the U.S. in Iraq in more than two years.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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Iranian IRGC drone carrier Bagheri has been launched and has been photographed at sea. Trials are likely to take some time.
It has an angled deck and ski-jump. unusually, they are angled towards starboard.
Background: H I Sutton - Covert Shores
It has an angled deck and ski-jump. unusually, they are angled towards starboard.
Background: H I Sutton - Covert Shores