The UN Security Council has authorised naval ships to enter Somali waters in pursuit of pirates.
Up to 10 EU naval ships are currently on patrol off the Horn of Africa.
The MV Faina was seized in late September and is being monitored by nearby U.S. naval ships.
That follows the deployment of a handful of American naval ships to deliver humanitarian aid to Georgia.
Three Indian naval ships have also been sent to help, though they were not due for some days.
America's Congressional Research Service reckons that installing electric drives on naval ships can cut fuel use by 10-25%.
As co-operation on security and counter-terrorism has improved, American naval ships have, since 2003, been visiting Vietnam's ports.
Its naval ships have often crossed into the disputed area, escorting fishing boats.
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Do you have any update on the threats by the Iranians to bring some of their naval ships off the U.S. coast?
But I heard that one of the British naval ships is there at - I mean, at the port in Grand Turk.
Brazil has sent out seven air force planes and three naval ships to help in the search, far off the north-eastern Brazilian coast.
The Eastern Europe shield plan also called for the interceptors in Poland and Romania to be complemented by deployed naval ships in the Mediterranean.
Yet last month the junta thumbed its nose at international law and permitted two Iranian naval ships to traverse the canal without being inspected.
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However, Russia, which has sent a series of naval ships to the Horn of Africa, says it will not serve under NATO or EU command.
This year, the U.S. Navy started Combined Task Force 151, a multinational coalition that uses naval ships to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden region.
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These include anti-aircraft missiles, which could hamper Israel's ability to operate in Lebanese skies, and advanced Yakhont missiles that are used to attack naval ships from the coast.
More troubling is the fact that U.S. naval ships will be at the mercy of Chinese-controlled pilots and could even be denied passage through the Panama Canal by Hutchinson.
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Iran's military has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, attack American naval ships passing through it, and pre-empt what it perceives to be preparations for an attack on Iran.
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No country regards ramming, disabling, or scuttling ships to be legal activities, and, except on rare occasions, even naval ships cannot lawfully interfere with foreign vessels on the high seas.
Although US leaders angrily referred to the Iranian operation as a dangerous provocation, a more constructive way to view the Iranian attack on US naval ships is as a probe.
American agents in Somalia and on American naval ships and submarines off the coast have shifted their energy away from hunting known al-Qaeda people to listening in on Shabab training camps.
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But Moscow abstained from supplying them until now - just after Iran sailed its naval ships unmolested to Syria through the Suez Canal and signed a naval treaty with Syria effectively fusing the Iranian and Syrian navies.
Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the North Koreans appear to have moved naval ships on both coasts as well as artillery on the other side of the Demilitarized Zone north of Seoul.
Indeed, since China began to flex its military muscles, declaring sovereignty over the many rocks, reefs and resources of the South China Sea, some of the countries of South-East Asia have been readier to open up their ports and repair yards to visiting American naval ships.
Given Iran's bellicosity in threatening US naval ships in one of the most vital waterways in the world, it is hard to see why the US would believe that Iranian cooperation in policing and defeating its own proxy forces in Iraq would advance US interests in the country or in the larger war.
From permitting Iranian naval ships to traverse the Suez Canal for the first time in 30 years to opening the border with Hamas-ruled Gaza to its openly hostile and conspiratorial reaction to the August 18 terrorist attack on Israel from the Sinai, there can be little doubt about the trajectory of Egypt's relations with Israel.
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This study reportedly has confirmed the findings of the earlier report submitted to Congress in 1998, namely: that there is no technical reason preventing the evolution of the Navy Theater Wide system into a National Missile Defense (NMD) role and that there are significant advantages in overall NMD system performance, readiness and effectiveness by adding Naval ships adapted to the NMD mission.
Relief is pouring in from all quarters, and excellent service is being rendered by British and foreign naval and merchant ships in sheltering the fugitives and bringing relief.
As a former Navy surface officer himself, Allen knows first hand that naval support has limited effectiveness unless it is preceded by a close working relationship between ships and naval assets in the region.
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