Tag: Mediterranean Sea
Russia’s Landing Ships Are Headed To The Mediterranean To Join A Growing Armada (Updated)
The six Russian amphibious warfare ships are continuing their voyage amid speculation they might be headed toward Ukraine.
Check Out These Flag-Bearing Navy SEALs Training With A Submerged Submarine
The Navy says this demonstrates how it can integrate special operations forces into even routine submarine operations in the Mediterranean.
U.S. Navy Ballistic Missile Submarine’s Gibraltar Visit Is First In Over Two Decades
The Navy has shared some additional details about USS Alaska’s very rare stopover, which comes amid a flurry of naval activity in the region.
American Ballistic Missile Submarine Makes Rare Stop In Gibraltar
USS Alaska’s highly unusually port visit in the Mediterranean is just the most recent curiously public appearance by one of the Navy’s ‘boomers.’
Navy Offers Glimpse Of Its Submarine-Launched Mine Capabilities In The Mediterranean
The USS Montpelier’s publicized mine-loading exercise in Greece’s Souda Bay comes as naval tensions grow in the eastern Mediterranean.
Russia Is Extending One Of The Runways At Its Syrian Airbase
The extended runway at Khmeimim could help accommodate heavy airlifters carrying more cargo or other large aircraft, including possibly bombers.
Armed Russian Fighters Fly Dangerously Close To U.S. Navy Patrol Plane Over The Mediterranean
The incident follows the American military’s release of evidence that Russia has sent combat aircraft to join Libya’s civil war.
Greece Is Sending Patriot Missiles To Saudi Arabia To Guard “Critical Energy Infrastructure”
Greece says it is preparing to deploy a Patriot surface-to-air missile system unit to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Kingdom’s oil infrastructure. This news comes amid reports that the U.S. military is trying to get approval from Iraqi authorities to send Patriots there in the wake of unprecedented Iranian ballistic missile strikes aimed at American personnel in that country last month.
Egypt’s Soviet-Era, Chinese-Made, American-Upgraded Subs Can Still Fire Harpoon Missiles
Egypt is one of just two remaining operators of Cold War-era Romeo class submarines, the other being North Korea, which revealed earlier this year that it was converting one of its examples into a new ballistic missile submarine, something you can read about in more detail in this past War Zone story. The remaining Egyptian examples, all of which originally came from China, are unique to the country, having gone through a major refit with U.S. assistance in the late 1980s and early 1990s that, among other things, allow them to fire UGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles.