U.S. Navy

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Iran strikes tanker under U.S. Navy escort in Hormuz

Commodity vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz fell to just three ships on Wednesday, down from 12 the day before and well below the 10-day average of roughly 17, according to preliminary ship-tracking data from Kpler cited by Baird…

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Anthropic says Iran-linked actors used Claude AI to target US Navy ships

Anthropic disclosed Thursday that an Iran-linked threat actor used its Claude AI model to compile targeting handbooks on U.S. Navy warships operating in the Middle East, part of a broader pattern of state-aligned misuse detailed in a 154-page threat intelligence…

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Iran fired undisclosed second wave of missiles at U.S. Navy ships, WSJ reports

Iran fired missiles at U.S. Navy ships on Monday in an attack the American military has not publicly acknowledged, The Wall Street Journal News Corp reported on September 8, citing U.S. officials. The strike, which missed its targets, came just…

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USS Abraham Lincoln docks in Thailand after record 250 days at sea

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived at Thailand's Laem Chabang port on Wednesday, ending an unprecedented 250 days at sea without a port stop and giving its nearly 5,000 crew members their first shore leave in over eight…

U.S. blockade halts Iran crude exports for record 7 weeks

For the first time on record, Iran has gone approximately seven weeks without shipping meaningful crude exports through the Strait of Hormuz, as a U.S. naval blockade achieves what years of sanctions could not: cutting off Tehran's primary source of…

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U.S. Navy has helped 1,000-plus tankers through Hormuz since May

The United States military has been quietly shepherding oil tankers through the southern portion of the Strait of Hormuz along routes close to Oman since May, helping move roughly 5 million barrels of crude oil per day out of the…