Naval war games last fall anticipated security challenges in the near future: how to deal with terrorists in the Arctic, how to deal with a rogue ship carrying nuclear weapons in the Arctic, how to move a U.S. fleet around the top of the planet, how to help clean up an oil spill.
Israel's interception of the Francop came a week after Yemeni forces seized an Iranian ship transporting armor-piercing weapons to Houthi Shi'ite rebels in northern Yemen.
These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
But because the ship was likely to eventually make its way to the Red Sea area, a number of weapons systems are thought to have been stored on the ship.
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The Russians have said any weapons and personnel on board the ship are for reinforcement of the Tartous facility.
Meanwhile, the United States said it was tracking a Russian military cargo ship en route to Syria that is carrying weapons, ammunition and a small number of Russian troops.
One ship, they explain, can bring in more weapons than a fleet of lorries with hidden military hardware.
The military intercepted a ship in the Mediterranean Sea and found heavy and light weapons aboard, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
Mr. Cruise is Jack, a man with a mission that's more mundane than one might guess from the weapons he wields and the so-called bubble ship he flies.
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Mrs Thatcher wrote that one Peruvian ship had been sent away from France empty, but another ship was on its way to France to take delivery of weapons - Peru was protesting to France about a breach of contract.
The global combat ship is being designed to appeal to foreign markets, where foreign navies can install weapons systems and other specification of their choice.
The weapons were not accompanied by the proper documentation and thus were technically illegal for the ship to be carrying in Venezuelan waters.
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At the same time, we accelerated or increased weapons programs needed to confront real and growing threats -- the Joint Strike Fighter, the Littoral Combat Ship, and more helicopters and reconnaissance support for our troops at the front.
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