Two of three Littoral Combat Ships assigned to Middle Eastern minesweeping duties have made another move in the opposite direction.
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As war rages in Iran, the US Navy’s minesweepers are headed to… the Far East?
The US Navy appears to believe that its Littoral Combat Ships are not up to the task of taking on Iranian naval mines.
The littoral combat ship returned to its homeport Wednesday following an eight-month deployment that included a rare visit to ...
The U.S. Navy decommissioned its only four minesweepers in the Middle East last year, but still maintains other countermine ...
Littoral Combat Ships USS Tulsa (LCS-16) and USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) were docked Sunday in Malaysia, well away from the ships’ homeport Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The two Independence-variant ...
Marine Corps Times on MSN
Two US counter-mine ships based in the Middle East are now in Singapore, Navy says
The USS Santa Barbara and USS Tulsa, which are homeported in Bahrain, arrived in Singapore this week.
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