29.12.2011, 22:24
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.marineforum.info/html/daily_news.html">http://www.marineforum.info/html/daily_news.html</a><!-- m -->
Zitat:...
28 December
IRAN
Day 5 of exercise “Velayat 90” saw deployment of various sea- or land-based naval drones, carrying out aerial reconnaissance and surveillance missions up to the southern Gulf of Oman (down to lat 20°N). Air Force fighter aircraft flew maritime support missions. Naval helicopters were employed in mine counter measures operations, detonating floating mines and clearing a channel for ships. During the next days, “advanced long-range, medium-range, and short-range missiles and smart torpedoes will be test-fired”.
While war of words on possible closure of the Strait of Hormuz continues, the US Navy’s JOHN C. STENNIS Carrier Strike Group has passed the waterway (rmks: leaving the Gulf enroute operations in the Arabian Sea). Iranian navy reports the CSG “entered the Velayat-90 exercise areas”, insinuating deliberate interference with the exercise.
(rmks: with the entire Gulf of Oman and northern Arabian Sea up to the eastern entrance to the Gulf of Aden declared exercise area, no ship sailing the region can avoid being within)
...