We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 List of NATO, U.S. Navy and UN ships currently in the Mediterranean:
🇺🇸 Ford Carrier Strike Group:
USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78
USS Thomas Hudner DDG-116
USS Ramage DDG-61
USS Carney DDG-64
USS Roosevelt DDG-80
USS Normandy CG-60
🇺🇸 Ike Carrier Strike Group:
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69
USS Gravely DDG-107
USS Mason DDG-87
ITS Virginio Fasan F-591
USS Philippine Sea CG-58
🇺🇸 Bataan ARG:
USS Bataan LHD-5
USS Mesa Verde LPD-19
USS Carter Hall LSD-50
🇺🇸 USS Mount Whitney LCC-20 Maritime Command Ship
🇺🇸 Non ARG-assigned U.S. ships:
USS Stethem DDG-63
USS McFaul DDG-74
USS Arleigh Burke DDG-51
USS Paul Ignatius DDG-117
USS Bulkeley DDG-84
🇺🇸 U.S. Navy auxiliary ships:
USNS Laramie T-AO 203
USNS Medgar Evers T-AKE 13
USNS Yuma T-EPF-8
USNS Trenton T-EFP-5
🇬🇧 Littoral Response Group South:
RFA Argus A-135
RFA Lyme Bay L-3007
🇫🇷 Tonnerre ARG:
FS Tonnerre L-9014
FS Surcouf F-711
FS Alsace D-656
🇺🇳 UNIFIL Maritime Task Force:
HS Adrias F-459
TCG Heybeliada F-511
FGS Erfurt F-262
FGS Oldenburg F-263
BNS Sangram F-113
KRI Sultan Iskandar Muda 367
NATO Maritime Group 2:
🇬🇧 HMS Duncan D-37
🇮🇹 ITS Carlo Margottini F-592
🇪🇸 ESPS Méndez Núñez F-104
🇹🇷 TCG Yavuz F-240
🇩🇰 HDMS Niels Juel F-363
🇬🇷 HS Psara F-454
🇩🇪 FGS Frankfurt am Main A-1412
🇪🇸 ESPS Patiño A-14
🇩🇪 FGS Baden-Wuerttemberg (F-125) [en-route]
Credit: SchizoIntel on X
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Azerbaijan: This Turkish country has destroyed more Christian monuments than ISIS.
Based off satellite data, Azerbaijan erased 108 Armenian monasteries, churches and cemeteries - in just one region.
By comparison, ISIS destroyed dozens of churches.
How is this okay?
@NoAgendaLara
UPDATE: Outrage erupts as there has been a SURGE in Islamists ATTACKING and vandalizing Japanese shrines
Security footage shows people wearing HIJABS storming up and unleashing on the Soya Shrine in Hadano City
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— Hypothetically, if the U.S. wanted to carry out a naval landing in Iran, they would do it somewhere outside the Persian Gulf, most likely Chabahar or somewhere else in the flat open coasts of Sistan-Balochistan Province.
That way, they don’t need to risk their ships entering the Persian Gulf under heavy anti-ship fire and incoming drones while trying to land their soldiers on a rugged coastline full of fortified positions and artillery emplacements.
In Chabahar, they could bring their ships close enough to the shore with relative safety, under heavy air cover. U.S. jets, drones, and attack helicopters would suppress any anti-ship batteries heavily, and create sufficiently safe conditions for the initial ‘landing’. One also cannot rule out the possibility of deploying U.S. airborne forces to secure key sites before an amphibious landing is attempted.
This might be coupled with increased Balochi terrorist activity across the Iranian rear lines, complicating logistics and the transfer of ...
