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Apr 15, 2024
ARABIAN SEA - 240411-N-NO146-1001 ARABIAN SEA (April 11, 2024) Service members from the Royal Navy’s Duke-class Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster (F229) search a suspected drug smugglers vessel during Focused Operation Crimson Barracuda in the Arabian Sea, April 11. Lancaster was operating under Combined Task Force 150, one of five task forces under Combined Maritime Forces, the largest multinational naval partnership in the world. CTF 150 focuses on maritime security operations outside the Arabian Gulf. Crimson Barracuda counters terrorist and criminal organizations’ use of the high seas to smuggle narcotics, weapons, and other illicit substances in the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman.


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