A DEVONPORT-BASED warship has seized more than one tonne of drugs worth more than £15 million in the Middle East.
Sailors and Royal Marines from HMS Montrose confiscated heroin, methamphetamine and hashish in the Royal Navy’s first bust of the year.
They launched a ten-hour operation in the Gulf of Oman which the Navy says has deprived criminal and terrorist networks of vital funding.
The frigate – which has been operating permanently in the Middle East for nearly three years since leaving Plymouth – was patrolling for a New Zealand-led task force in the Gulf of Oman when she encountered a suspect vessel.
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आईएनएस तलवार ने बहरीन की नौसेना के साथ पूरा किया एक दिवसीय सैन्य अभ्यास
ओमान की खाड़ी में अपनी मौजूदा सैन्य तैनाती में मजबूती से डटे हुए नौसेना के युद्धपोत आईएनएस तलवार ने बहरीन की नौसेना के साथ अपना एक दिवसीय संयुक्त नौसैन्य युद्धाभ्यास पैसैक्स पूरा कर लिया है।
नौसेना में महिलाओं को अहम जिम्मेदारी, पहली बार युद्धपोत पर तैनात होंगी दो अधिकारी
भारतीय नौसेना ने पहली बार हेलीकॉप्टर स्ट्रीम में दो महिलाओं को तैनात करने का फैसला किया है।