Posts Tagged ‘arms trafficking’
RFA Mounts Bay has resumed duties patrolling the Mediterranean to counter illegal arms trafficking. The vessel takes over from HMS Diamond, which carried out the role for two months while Mounts Bay underwent planned maintenance, as well as playing a role in a joint maritime exercise, Albanian Lion, in September 2016. The ...
A Royal Navy warship has left Portsmouth Naval Base in order to assist in an operation designed to counter arms trafficking. HMS Diamond, a Type 45 destroyer, set sail to the southern Mediterranean on 31st August for a two-month deployment, replacing the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship RFA Mounts Bay during a ...
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