Some naval dispositions near Syria

These Russian Ships now gone from Tartus

P-8 patrols Latakia Harbor

US Navy Ohio-class guided missile submarine USS Georgia with 158 cruise missiles  changed its area of operations to the Mediterranean. USS John Warner nuclear submarine is also deployed in the region,DDG USS Laboon  somewhere near the Mediterranean and DDG USS Carney deployed somewhere in Mediterranean . The British can offer the fire power of an Austute-class submarine, which has been already ordered to approach Syria. These carry 38 Tomahawk IVs cruise missiles.   Add to that strike potential of B2 Stealth Bombers, F-22 Raptors based in the region and Britain’s Tornado bombers based on Cyprus.

USS IWO JIMA (LHD-7) ARG transited Suez Canal March 27 and entered in the Djibouti on April 3.   The U.S already has one guided-missile destroyer, The Donald Cook, in the Eastern Mediterranean.   The USS Porter arrived in Cherbourg on April 7.   The USS Ross is in Plymouth April 8.
USN's P-8A Poseiden and EP-3E aircraft operated in the same time slots close to Crimea on April 3.

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A carrier strike group is slated to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Med after it completed four months of operations in the Persian Gulf.   US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its associated carrier strike group are getting underway from Norfolk on Wednesday, April 11, to start a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East.   In addition to US Navy ships, the group will be joined by German air defense frigate FGS Hessen for the first half of the deployment.

Guided-missile destroyers USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) and USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) will join the strike group at a future date.

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt) arrived in Manilafor a scheduled port visit, April 11.

Al Hani: Libyan frigate 212 in rebel hands

Syrian Gunboats fire on Latakia

One witness, speaking by phone to Reuters, said: 'I can see the silhouettes of two grey vessels.


'They are firing their guns and the impact is landing on al-Raml al-Filistini and al-Shaab neighbouhoods." President Assad is from Syria's minority Alawite sect, while Latakia is majority Sunni with a large Alawite population.

Demonstrations against the leader during the five-month uprising against his autocratic rule have been biggest in Sunni neighbourhoods. Sunnis, which are a majority in Syria, live in Latakia’s urban core, while Assad’s minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, populates villages on the city’s outskirts, along with small minorities of Christians, ethnic Turks and other groups.

Sonya class minesweeper: A wooden hulled coastal minehunter, built as a successor to the Vanya class with new sweeps and more effective sonar. 2 - 30mm guns (1x2)
2 x 25mm guns (1x2)
Yevgenya class minesweeper: These were small minehunters built for inshore work. The hulls were constructed of glass-reinforced plastic. 2–14.5 mm machine guns




Syrian forces were using medium-range weapons and machine guns in their attack on the neighborhoods, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria,

Drazki, Konstantin Olshansky: to Libyan waters

Bulgarian frigate F 41 "Drazki" (i.e. "Daring") is expected to join the operation on April 15 and will be manned by 160-member crew.
In 2009, Bulgaria purchased three second-hand frigates from Belgium - Drazki, Gordi ("Proud"), and "Verni" ("Faithful") and the Tsibar minesweeper.

Ukrainian Navy ship U402 'Konstantin Olshansky' arrived April 11 in Sevastopol with 113 refugees from Libya on board, 85 ethnic Ukrainians among them
The Ropucha (toad), or Project 775 class landing ships are classified in the Russian Navy as "large landing craft" (Bol'shoy Desatnyy Korabl). They were built in Poland in the Stocznia Północna shipyards, in Gdansk.