{"id":22798,"date":"2022-09-07T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=22798"},"modified":"2022-09-07T12:34:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T10:34:49","slug":"iranian-navy-on-a-caper-voyage-with-sail-drones-in-tow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/iranische-marine-auf-kaperfahrt-segeldrohnen-im-schlepptau\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian navy on a privateer voyage - sail drones in tow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #1f1f1f;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On Friday (2 September), the Iranian navy announced that it had seized two American-made sailing drones in the Red Sea because they were apparently \"ownerless and uncontrolled, threatening the navigational safety of shipping\". Following two calls from an American destroyer in the sea area, the two drones were taken on board the Iranian destroyer \"Jamaran\" without further ado and released again after an inspection away from the shipping lanes. This was combined with a request to the US Navy to please prevent such incidents in future. Iranian state television published corresponding scenes from on board the destroyer. On the American side, it sounded a little different: after the capture, the US destroyer followed the Iranian destroyer with its helicopter until it dropped the two \"Saildrone Explorer\" again.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"color: #1f1f1f;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Not the first time<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #1f1f1f;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A few days earlier, the US Naval Institute published a video sequence recorded by an MH-60S Sea Hawk in the Persian Gulf of a seemingly unreal chase along the lines of: \"If you play on my doorstep - I'll take your toys away! The Iranian support ship \"Shahid Baziar\" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards had one of the American naval drones in tow - accompanied at a short distance by the patrol boat USS Thunderbolt. Without taking the situation to extremes, \"Thunderbolt\" and Sea Hawk kept at it and after some time were able to convince the \"Shahid Baziar\" to release the \"Saildrone Explorer\" - what else could she do! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iV55BrCY6EI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">Watch video<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"color: #1f1f1f;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Comprehensive monitoring<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #1f1f1f;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The US Navy is not currently providing any information on the number of drones deployed, but they are already providing significantly better reconnaissance of the sea areas. Next year, the US Navy hopes to expand its cooperation with Israel and Saudi Arabia as well as some other Gulf states to such an extent that around 100 of these networked drones can be expected to be deployed at sea and in the air. This would provide a good picture of Iranian activities around the peninsula! However, there still seems to be room for improvement - at least as far as theft protection is concerned.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am Freitag (2.9.) informierte die iranische Marine, dass sie sich im Roten Meer zweier Segeldrohnen amerikanischer Herkunft bem\u00e4chtigt habe, weil sie offenbar \u201eherrenlos und unkontrolliert die navigatorische Sicherheit der Schifffahrt\u201c bedrohten. Nach zweifachem Anruf eines im Seegebiet stehenden amerikanischen Zerst\u00f6rers habe man kurzerhand die beiden Drohnen an Bord des iranischen Zerst\u00f6rers \u201eJamaran\u201c genommen und sie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,486,42,48],"tags":[1023,1095,4323,4321,4322,394],"class_list":["post-22798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-schifffahrt-news","tag-iran","tag-persischer-golf","tag-rotes-meer","tag-segeldrohnen","tag-segelroboter","tag-us-navy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}