US Navy's Strength Negated As Iran Targets Jet Fuel Replenishment Oilers | Former Pentagon Official
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"If these oilers have no way to go back and forth to do replenishment, then it doesn't matter how powerful your Navy is, they've got to go further afield." The US is considering options to localise ports for jet fuel replenishment on its aircraft carriers, including recognising Somaliland's sovereignty to use their ports, says former Pentagon official Michael Rubin. Michael Rubin was speaking to Andrew Neil on The Times At One on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday-Thursday from 1-2pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/
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