The weapons seizure so big it covered the rear deck of a 567-foot US warship

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A joint US Navy and Coast Guard team seized thousands of illicit weapons last week after stopping a small ship in the North Arabian Sea, the Navy said in a statement.

The cruiser USS Monterey stopped the stateless dhow on May 6 during a routine operation to verify its registry, the Navy said.A US Coast Guard Advanced Interdiction Team deployed on the Navy ship then boarded the dhow and found the weapons stash.An SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey flies above a stateless dhow interdicted with a shipment of illicit weapons in international waters of the North Arabian Sea on May 6, 2021.

The massive arms haul covered much of the rear flight deck of the 567-foot US warship after it was transferred over in what the Navy said was a two-day operation."The cache of weapons included dozens of advanced Russian-made anti-tank guided missiles, thousands of Chinese Type 56 assault rifles, and hundreds of PKM machine guns, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Other weapon components included advanced optical sights," the Navy statement said.

 

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SavePalestine

The world should seized all the US weapons sold to foreign countries too.

I hope that all mothers in the world will be well, but the mothers of Palestine are assaulted against them and their children. Are they not mothers who have the right to live and have a home like everyone else.

MENA_Conflict curious your thoughts on these.

What is seized is a tiny percentage of what is out there! Iranian hegemony never stopped or slowed down! Yemen

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