The international effort to maintain security in the Arabian Sea is reporting another significant drug seizure, reports Fort Lauderdale's Maritime Executive.
The HMS Lancaster, a frigate, part of a Combined Task Force 150 routine patrol in the North Arabian Sea, identified a suspicious small cargo dhow transiting the area.
The British frigate reports it secretly shadowed the suspect through the Arabian Sea for more than 24 hours. As part of the operation, it deployed for the second time the royal Navy's new Peregrine drones.
The command of the Lancaster describes them as 'mini helicopters which conduct reconnaissance stories for hours and feed live information to the vessel's operation room.' The same vessel highlighted in March that it had used the system for the first time during a drug seizure.
After further monitoring of the dhow using a drone, the Royal Marines went into action. A boarding team of 42 commandos was embarked into two sea boats and in what the command called 'a pincer movement,' the dhow was interested. Overhead, Royal Marine snipers were monitoring the operation from the frigate's Wildcat helicopter.
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The HMS Lancaster, a frigate, part of a Combined Task Force 150 routine patrol in the North Arabian Sea, identified a suspicious small cargo dhow transiting the area.
The British frigate reports it secretly shadowed the suspect through the Arabian Sea for more than 24 hours. As part of the operation, it deployed for the second time the royal Navy's new Peregrine drones.
The command of the Lancaster describes them as 'mini helicopters which conduct reconnaissance stories for hours and feed live information to the vessel's operation room.' The same vessel highlighted in March that it had used the system for the first time during a drug seizure.
After further monitoring of the dhow using a drone, the Royal Marines went into action. A boarding team of 42 commandos was embarked into two sea boats and in what the command called 'a pincer movement,' the dhow was interested. Overhead, Royal Marine snipers were monitoring the operation from the frigate's Wildcat helicopter.
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