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By the end of the operation, US Marines and US Navy ships and aircraft had destroyed Iranian naval and intelligence facilities on two inoperable oil platforms in the Persian Gulf, and sunk at least three armed Iranian Boghammer speedboats, one Iranian frigate, and one fast attack missile boat. One other Iranian frigate was damaged in the battle ...
The USS Stark incident occurred during the Iran–Iraq War on 17 May 1987 in the Persian Gulf, when an Iraqi jet aircraft fired two Exocet missiles at the U.S. frigate USS Stark. A total of 37 United States Navy personnel were killed or later died as a result of the attack, and 21 were injured.
Within the Reagan administration, McFarlane was a leading architect of the Strategic Defense Initiative, a project intended to defend the US from Soviet ballistic missile attacks. [2] He resigned as National Security Adviser in late 1985 because of disagreements with other administration figures but remained involved in negotiations with Iran ...
The U.S. military has never launched a direct attack on Iranian soil, but in April 1988, then-President Ronald Reagan’s administration attacked Iranian ships and offshore oil platforms in the ...
Soviet Union / Russia Currently in refit as of 2025: Fateh class: IRIS Fateh: 920: 2019: 527 tons Coastal submarine: Southern Fleet: Iran Ghadir class — — 2007 onward: 125 tons Midget submarine: Southern Fleet: Iran 20 in service Nahang class: IRIS Nahang 1: XXX: 2006: 115 tons Midget submarine: Southern Fleet: Iran Frigates (7/8) Class ...
The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world's waterways. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by ...
Operation Merlin backfired when the CIA's Russian contact/messenger noticed flaws in the schematics and told the Iranian nuclear scientists. [5] Instead of crippling Iran's nuclear program, the book alleges, Operation Merlin may have accelerated it by providing useful information: once the flaws were identified, the plans could be compared with other sources, such as those presumed to have ...
Britain handed over its file to the UN as Iranian-made attack drones are used by Russia to pummel Ukraine in Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Officials argue the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...