Iran Loves This: The Royal Navy Doesn’t Have Enough Ships to Patrol Persian Gulf
The Royal Navy plans briefly to double its number of warships in the Persian Gulf following an attempted attack by Iranian forces on a British oil tanker on July 20, 2019. But the temporary increase in British warships in the region, from one to two, underscores just how few ships the Royal Navy can deploy even in an emergency. Iranian boats tried to “impede” the British oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, the BBC reported. HMS , a Type 23 frigate, “was forced to move between the three boats and the tanker,” The British government claimed ...
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