Navy sends guided-missile submarine into Persian Gulf in not-so-subtle message to Iran
This is the first time an Ohio class guided missile submarine has been in the Persian Gulf in eight years.
By Joseph Trevithick, The War Zone December 21, 2020
The U.S. Navy has publicly announced the transit of USS Georgia, one of its four Ohio class guided-missile submarines, or SSGNs, from the Gulf of Oman into the Persian Gulf by way of the highly strategic and often tense Strait of Hormuz. This is the first time one of these boats has sailed into that body of water in eight years. These four submarines are among the most in-demand across the service’s submarine fleets and Georgia‘s rare appearance in the region would seem to be, at least in part, a signal aimed squarely at Iran and its regional proxies.
Georgia passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Dec. 21, 2020, accompanied by two Ticonderoga class cruisers, USS Port Royal and USS Philippine Sea. This trio traveled into the Persian Gulf following the movement of the supercarrier USS Nimitz, and elements of its carrier strike group, further south in the Arabian Sea to support Operation Octave Quartz, the repositioning of the bulk of U.S. forces out of Somalia.
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