The U.S. Navy said it seized a massive cache of illicit weapons, including thousands of assault weapons, machine guns and sniper rifles, from a stateless vessel sailing in international waters of the northern Arabian Sea. The arms were apparently bound for Yemen to support the country’s Houthi rebels, according to the Associated Press.
The U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet said in a statement Saturday that the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey stopped the dhow on May 6 and discovered the cargo during a routine boarding operation.
“The cache of weapons included dozens of advanced Russian-made anti-tank guided missiles, thousands of Chinese Type 56 assault rifles, and hundreds of PKM machine guns, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades launchers,” the Navy said in the statement.
Photo and video showed the huge weapons haul covering part of the flight deck of the ship during the two-day operation.
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