Photo: USS Farragut (DDG-99), US Navy photograph
CNN is reporting that the USS Farragut working with the Yemeni Coast Guard has intercepted a large shipment of illegal weapons, including surface to air missiles.
Seems I remember a similar find resulted in Coast Guard 82 footers being sent to Vietnam. Of course we had troops in Vietnam at the time. The Coast Guards Foreign Military Sales program has already provided the Yemeni Coast Guard with two 87 foot Marine Protector Class Cutters with augmented weapons. But that is awfully thin coverage for a coast line similar in length to that of South Vietnam.
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The 82-footers were the first deployed combat patrol craft sent to Vietnam. They were there some six months before the PCFs arrived. There are significant differences between Vietnam and Yemen as far as the coast. There are many more villages in Vietnam and, of course, a very hostile nation to the north supplying arms.
I have taken rides aboard a couple of the protector class 87-footers and I do not believe they could take the same operational grind the less sophisticated 82-footers endured. The video of the high speed is pretty cool, but most patrol work is done at about two knots one engine. It looks like the same type built for work at King’s Bay. I would not call a remotely operated 7.65mm machine gun an enhancement.
There was an interesting/cool clip on a Discovery channel episode of “Extreme Smuggling” in which LCS 1 is working in tandem with a large RIB to interdict a panga off Central America.
The pursuit looks to occur at around 40kts…at least until the RIB get rammed. Impressive.
@Bill, ” I would not call a remotely operated 7.65mm machine gun an enhancement.”
I think they are using a remotely controlled .50 on a Mk49 mount.
More here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9843859/Iran-is-smuggling-manpad-anti-aircraft-missiles-for-lone-militants-warns-US.html
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We need to start smuggling arms to the Iranian opposition… Lets give those knuckleheads something closer to home to worry about, and they’ll quickly run out of resources to export they’re bad acting…
More information about the ten surface to air missiles found on board. Apparently of Chinese origin: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14154358-iran-accused-of-sending-chinese-weapons-to-its-middle-eastern-proxies