Adjunct Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted in Business Insider about a U.S. Navy ship, the USNS Invincible, being forced to change course by multiple fast-attack vessels from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Lawrence Brennan, a former US Navy captain and an expert on maritime law, said the Invincible is a scientific-research vessel and was unlikely armed except for “small arms for self defense.”
The US Navy officially lists the Invincible as a “missile range instrumentation ship” that monitors missile launches and collects data, so it was likely in the region because of Iran’s repeated ballistic-missile launches.
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“This generic type of unarmed ship has been a target a number of times,” Brennan said, citing attacks on the USS Liberty and Pueblo as examples of similar harassment.