UKMTO WARNING
INCIDENT 019 – ATTACK UPDATE 001https://t.co/qlApy9q9pq#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec pic.twitter.com/uhXf1I7V33
— United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) (@UK_MTO) January 24, 2024
This morning brought news from UKMTO of an incident 50 nautical miles south of Al Mukha, Yemen, in which the master of a ship reported an explosion about 100 meters off the vessel’s starboard side. According to a later post on X (formerly Twitter) by U.S. Central Command that ship was the...
Two U.S. Navy SEALs who went missing in a hazardous nighttime operation on January 11 have now been declared dead. The mission on which they were lost saw the successful seizure of a dhow conducting illegal transport of advanced lethal aid from Iran to resupply Houthi forces in Yemen.
In a statement from the White House, President Biden said:
“Jill and I are mourning the tragic deaths of two of America’s finest—Navy SEALs who were lost at sea while executing a mission off the coast of East Africa...
https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/two-missing-u-s-navy-seals-declared-dead/
Gen. Kenneth McKenzie commander, U.S. Central Command, provides testimony at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on ending the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. on Sept. 29, 2021. DoD Photo
The U.S. is gathering over-the-horizon intelligence on terrorist activities in Afghanistan but hasn’t made a strike against ISIS-K and al Qaeda, the head of U.S. Central Command told a Senate panel said.
Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said Tuesday in...
Medal of Honor recipient Hershel “Woody” Williams poses with Capt. George P. McCarthy, right, ship’s master, and Capt. David L. Gray, commanding officer of the Blue team, aboard the expeditionary sea base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4). Williams visited with Sailors and crew prior to the ship’s commissioning on March 7 in Norfolk, Va. US Navy photo.
In U.S. 5th Fleet, sister ship USS Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller (ESB-3) has been operating in theater since it first arrived in August 2017. Much...
Vice Adm. James Malloy, left, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. 5th Fleet, Combined Maritime Forces, meets with representatives from various partner nations inside a field tent erected for the command post exercise portion of IMX 19 on Oct. 31, 2019. US Navy photo.
U.S. 5th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. James Malloy as been nominated to serve as the deputy commander of all forces in the Middle East, the Pentagon announced today.
Malloy has led naval forces in the region since...
Undated file photo provided by Northrop Grumman, a Navy RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle conducts tests over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.
A Navy surveillance drone suffered major damage during a takeoff attempt while operating in the Middle East, Navy officials confirmed to USNI News on Thursday.
The service’s $180-million RQ-4A Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator (BAMS-D) was attempting to take off from a runway in U.S. Central Command and was hit by a piece of debris...
https://news.usni.org/2019/12/12/navy-rq-4a-surveillance-drone-suffers-major-damage-in-middle-east
An undated photo of RQ-4A BAMS-D flying over Maryland. Northrop Grumman photo.
A Navy high-altitude surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC announced on Thursday.
The IRGC claimed the UAV was operating over Iranian airspace and that the shootdown was to send a “clear message” to Washington, said IRGC commander Gen. Hossein Salami, according to ABC.
“The message is that...