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US Navy confirms the 18 fast-attack craft seen in satellite footage swarming the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month WERE Iranian
2020-01-01
  • At least 18 Iranian small boats were photographed on December 4 sailing alongside the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, US military confirms

  • The strike group which sailed through Strait of Hormuz consists of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln; the USS Leyte Gulf; and the USS Farragut

  • The images, which were taken by a private company using commercial satellites, shows a few of the Iranian boats get as close as 1,000ft to the American vessels

  • US military says that the Iranian boats acted within 'normal behavior patterns', contradicting claims by pro-Iran media that the ships 'harassed' US vessels

  • The Strait of Hormuz is considered the world's most important oil artery as about a fifth of the world's oil passes through
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Posted by: Squinty Glomose4506   2020-01-01 21:11  

#4  /\ Greenpeace? The Sea Shepherds also practiced suicidal seamanship on occasion... just kidding, if you didn't say IRGC you are brain dead.
Posted by: magpie   2020-01-01 21:07  

#3  Who the Hell did they think they were? Portuguese?
Posted by: b   2020-01-01 11:41  

#2  Seems to me the tanker could have been the objective until Abe Lincoln showed up.
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365   2020-01-01 01:10  

#1  A commercial oil tanker can be seen a few hundred yards in front of the carrier strike group.
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365   2020-01-01 01:09  

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