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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 ...
[11] US officials denied the Iranian account and said there had been no American aimed at seizing a tanker. [2] The U.S. officials said that Iranian forces had actually seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker last month while "two U.S. navy ships, backed by air support, had monitored the situation, but did not try to interdict the vessel."
A U.S. Navy riverine command boat in the Persian Gulf in 2013. On January 12, 2016, two United States Navy riverine command boats (RCBs) cruising from Kuwait to Bahrain with a combined crew of nine men and one woman on board strayed into Iranian territorial waters [5] which extend three nautical miles around Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf.
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 ...
Iran has spent the 33 years since Operation Praying Mantis modernizing its navy with the goal of conducting high-seas operations.
The U.S. Navy said Monday its sailors and the United Kingdom Royal Navy came to the aid of a ship in the crucial Strait of Hormuz after Iran's Revolutionary Guard “harassed” it. Three fast ...
Iran IRIS Deylaman: 78: 2023 1,500 tons Frigate: Northern Fleet: Iran Corvettes (3) Bayandor class: IRIS Bayandor: 81: 1964: 900 tons Corvette: Southern Fleet: United States IRIS Naghdi: 82: 1964 900 tons Corvette: Southern Fleet: United States Undergoing Overhaul as of 2025 Hamzeh class: IRIS Hamzeh: 802: 1936: 539 tons Corvette: Northern ...
Iran tried to seize two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz early Wednesday, opening fire on one of them, the U.S. Navy said. It said that in both cases, the Iranian naval vessels ...