Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy seized a commercial tanker near the Strait of Hormuz in late April 2026, a U.S. official confirmed to the Associated Press. The boarding was carried out ...
On a clear morning in the Strait of Hormuz, a loaded tanker has roughly 12 minutes of warning before a fast-attack boat ...
The directive to turn its weapons on the boats adds a new element to the Navy's mine-clearing operations in the strait, which ...
Iran’s traditional naval fleet has been almost completely destroyed by US-Israeli raids. But Iran’s military has put a fleet ...
More than 60% of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ fast attack ships in charge of patrolling the Strait of Hormuz are still intact despite six weeks of US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s navy, ...
Trump’s order undercuts the administration’s repeated claims that Iran’s navy has been decimated. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt played down the threat of Iran’s “speedy gunboats” in a ...
Iran’s conventional navy warships might be largely destroyed, but analysts say that’s never where its true sea power lay.
A Navy destroyer fires its 5-inch deck gun, one of the weapons that could be used to engage small Iranian attack boats.US Navy photo President Donald Trump said Thursday that he ordered the US Navy to ...
Iran’s small vessels may be able to challenge US blockade operations, Chinese analysts suggest, despite the heavy losses suffered by the Iranian navy during the opening weeks of the US-Israeli ...