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A word or two on Type 26 frigates from our Editor @IBallantyn 👇
Once the UK Govt drank the elixir of drones - a way to do without those expensive Type 26 warships, their seemingly too-hard-to-recruit people and costly weapons - and the Ukrainians 'beat a navy without a navy', it seized upon the 'hybrid navy' as the latest 'silver bullet' to
Sending the currently unemployed Ukrainian mine-hunters working out of Portsmouth in the UK - because they cannot get through the Turkish Straits to operate in the Black Sea - to help tackle the Strait of Hormuz mine menace (at some stage) is a sensible move, if today's reports
Here's some imagery via US @CENTCOM relating to USS Spruance @USNavy intercepting and stopping (via use of several rounds from the destroyer's 5-inch gun and hits on the engine room area) the Iran-bound and cargo vessel M/V Touska. It was part of the American-imposed blockade.
Sub Lieutenant Sean Neiuwenhoven of the @Australian_Navy jumps into the ocean to complete routine inspections and maintenance on the hull of the frigate HMAS Toowoomba. The ship was in the Philippine Sea as part of her current 2026 Regional Presence Deployment. Photo: LSIS Zac
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