Russian missiles, PKM machine guns and Chinese assault rifles, are part of the Thousands of weapons of war found on an unflagged vessel that was intercepted by the USS Monterrey.
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Monday, September 30
US Navy intercepts vessel with Russian and Chinese weapons in Arabian Sea
The Navy of The United States has intercepted in the north of the Arabian Sea a shipment of thousands of weapons of war , many of them of Russian and Chinese manufacture, on board a vessel without a flag, reported this Sunday on Central Command of the Naval Forces of the North American country .
From the base of the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, the Central Command indicated in a statement that the cache includes “dozens of Russian anti-tank guided missiles, thousands of Chinese Type assault rifles 56 and hundreds of PKM machine guns, rifles with telescopic sights and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. ”
Among the seized material there were also sights advanced optics, he added.
n found last Thursday by the missile cruiser USS Monterrey during a “routine verification in international waters” in a “dhow” (a traditional Arab sailboat used in commercial activities) without a flag, carried out “in accordance with customary international law”, according to the note.
The guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) seized an illicit shipment of weapons from a stateless dhow in international waters of the North Arabian Sea on May 6-7, 2021.
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After having passed all the illicit cargo to the US ship, an operation that lasted two days, the “dhow” was “evaluated for its navigability and, after being questioned, its crew was provided with food and water before being released. ”
In a video posted on the Facebook account of Quinta Floja, the thousands of weapons deployed on what appears to be the Deck of USS Monterrey .
The Central Command added that it is still investigating the origin and destination of the weapons.
Bahrain, a small island country in the Persian Gulf, is home to the headquarters of the United States Fifth Naval Fleet.
The base and the Navy personnel deployed there are key to supervising and maintaining security in a score of countries or some 2.5 million square miles, from the Persian Gulf to parts of the Indian Ocean, via the Red Sea and the Gulf of Oman, based on US data
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