According to reports #Iran's #IRGC have conducted an unannounced exercise including drones and ballistic missiles, surface to surface. The BM tests included Zolfaghar and Dezful, potentially more.
#Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 USCGC Stone intercepts cocaine smuggling vessel https://hubs.la/H0DFQnF0 #caribbean #MarSec #trafficking #drugs
#FridayThoughts Gulf of Guinea becomes this decade’s Somalia as kidnapping cases soar https://splash247.com/?p=134295 via @splash_247 #WestAfrica #GulfofGuinea #MaritimeSecurity
#GulfofAden Two suspicious approach incidents occur within a 24hr period approximately 34nm NW of Pointe A IRTC https://channel16.dryadglobal.com/suspicious-approach-34nm-nw-irtc
#MarSec
#Libya 🇱🇾 Shipowners warned over new cocaine smuggling route through
https://www.tradewindsnews.com/containerships/shipowners-warned-over-new-cocaine-smuggling-route-through-libya/2-1-944007 @tradewindsnews
Neo-colonialism in the Gulf of Guinea: help or hinderance to establishing maritime security in #WestAfrica #MarSec @marines64 @ShipNews
https://hubs.ly/H0DNt2h0
Footage of the reported “foreign submarine” that entered the #Iran|ian Navy’s exercise area earlier today.
Cc @CovertShores and other sub folks.
A foreign submarine, apparently #American, intended to approach the Iranian Navy drill zone, but it was spotted and warned to leave the area. The war game zone of Iranian Navy covers the Makran coasts in southeast #Iran and the northern areas of the Indian Ocean.
