The storied gunmaker released its one-off Titan rifle this week as the Beretta NARP platform was featured at the head of Army celebrations in Italy.
The Titan is a semiautomatic sporting rifle using a short-stroke gas piston system and chambered in 6.5 Grendel. As such, it takes cues from the company’s select-fire NARP series carbine, which has been under development since 2018.
Using an enhanced two-stage trigger for a crisp, predictable break, the Titan is a bespoke release for sure, using a titanium upper receiver, a magnesium lower receiver, a carbon‑fiber stock and forend, and a forged‑carbon pistol grip.
The Titan is unlike anything Beretta has ever released as a rifle. (Photos: Beretta)
It incorporates magnesium, titanium, and carbon fiber in its construction.
The exclusive grey camo pattern applied to the receiver subtly incorporates the date 1526, the year of the earliest verified Beretta firearms contact.
The Titan is shown with Steiner optics, including an MPS enclosed micro red dot atop a M7Xi series 2.9-20×50 riflescope.
Its custom-fitted case is built with a carbon‑fiber shell and a refined Alcantara interior.
We profiled how the iconic Italian gunmaker produces such one-of-a-kind firearms via the company’s Pietro Beretta Custom Atelier, where dreams come true.
With semi-auto NARPs in the form of the Titan at least conceptually in existence, a production model for the U.S. market seems very possible in the coming months.
NARP marches at the head of the parade
Released in 2023, the NARP has been a hit at arms expos worldwide, and we had a chance to go loud with one on Beretta’s range in Italy in 2024. Offered in 5.56 NATO, .300 BLK, and 6.5 Grendel, a large-action 7.62 variant is also under development.
We had a chance to fire the NARP on full-auto in 2024 and found it very controllable. The mag shown is for a Beretta 93R that we were also shooting that day. Sigh. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
Compare the 6.5 version of the NARP, the Praetorian, below, with the Titan in the first part of this post.
Beretta NARP Praetorian configuration 6.5 at Milol Paris
It has been short-listed for Project Grayburn, the replacement program for the British Army’s SA80 rifle, and earlier this month was seen in the hands of elite Italian Army units.
Folgore brigade paratroopers with the Beretta NARP at the 165th anniversary celebration of the Italian Army in L’Aquila in May 2026. (Photo: Italian Army)
Alpini mountain troops seen with the Beretta NARP in L’Aquila in May 2026. (Photo: Italian Army).
Beretta Defense Technologies confirmed to Jane’s Defense earlier this year that the Italian Army ordered 7,000 NARP rifles chambered in 5.56 NATO with 14.5-inch barrels.
It is believed the rifle will replace Beretta ARX-160s as part of the modernization plan of the Italian Armed Forces. Speaking of which, the same troops shown with the NARP this month were wearing the new Altimetrico F-based Mimetismo multi-terreno modello 2025 (Multi-terrain Camouflage Model 2025), camouflage pattern, which was developed by the Italian Army in collaboration with Beretta.
For comparison, check out the image below of Italian troops with the current Vegetato camo pattern and Beretta ARX-160s seen in Rome last week by Guns.com staff.
What were we doing in Italy? You will find out soon enough!
The Republic of China’s Indigenous Defense Submarine, ROCS Hai Kun (SS-711) fired two MK-48 Exercise Torpedoes during her 8th underwater sea trial on 6 May 2026.
The footage and images released by CSBC Shipbuilding, cleared by the ROCN, are amazing and clearly meant for public consumption around the Pacific Rim. You can even see the trailing guidance wires and recovery by the fleet’s new rescue and salvage ship, the CSBC-built ROCS Da Wu (ARS-571), which was only commissioned last October.
The U.S. State Department approved the sale of 18 MK 48 Mod 6AT and related equipment to Taipei in 2020 for an estimated $180 million, but delivery isn’t slated until 2028, with as many as 46 ultimately planned.
Until then, the ROCN has to make do with its dwindling supply of older Indonesian license-made German-designed AEG SUT 264 torpedoes, which were received in 1998 after its initial batch of SUTs, ordered for use with its two Dutch-made modified Zwaardvis class boats in the 1980s, were used up in exercises.
Before the SUTs, Taiwan was stuck using old surplus Mk37s that it didn’t officially have.
The Philippine Navy holds an arrival ceremony on May 8, 2026, for Offshore Patrol Vessel 2, the future BRP Rajah Lakandula, at Naval Operating Base-Subic. The event is led by PN Flag Officer in Command Vice Admiral Jose Ma Ambrosio Ezpeleta with Philippine Military Academy Superintendent Vice Admiral Caesar Bernard Valencia. Photo courtesy: Philippine Navy
The Philippine Navy’s newest offshore patrol vessel, the future BRP Rajah Lakandula (PS-21), has arrived in the country from Hyundai in Korea for a pending commissioning, just 14 weeks after her sister.
The 2,400-ton/310-foot Rajah Sulayman-class OPV is a heavy hitter for her size, carrying a 76mm/62 cal OTO Super Rapid forward, two 30mm RWS mounts, and two stabilized .50 cals backed up by a Leonardo 2D air/surface surveillance radar, an EW suite including IR and RF decoys, a heli/UAV-deck and hangar, and a mission bay that supports a towed array sonar.
Philippine Navy’s BRP Rajah Sulayman (PS20), with the BRP Jose Rizal (FF150), during a pass ex evolution on January 17, 2026.
BRP Rajah Sulayman OPV (PS-20)
It would be nice to see the U.S. Navy and USCG move back to a 76mm (if not 5-inch) gun from the current 57mm Mk 3/Mk 110 Bofors mount.
The 360-foot/15,000-ton third-hand former oilfield support vessel M/V Aiviq seems to be proving herself even though she is really more icebreaker-adjacent, being a Polar A3 class ship capable of busting through just one meter of ice continuously.
As noted by CG PAO, Storis’s recent patrol “refined the crew’s ice piloting and navigational skills, developed baseline performance parameters for ice operations, and conducted a first-in-kind re-fueling exercise with USCGC Waesche (WMSL 751).”
The two vessels executed a pierside Fueling at Sea (FAS) exercise in Dutch Harbor during the patrol, essentally showing Storis could be used as an offshore fuel-replenishment barge, demonstrating the breaker’s “unique capability within the National Fleet to sustain forces in the high-latitudes—extending asset time on station, maximizing the nation’s operational footprint, and ensuring the Coast Guard remains always ready in the High North.”
How about this great overhead shot of a wartime super carrier showing the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) as she sails in the Arabian Sea with CVW-7 AG embarked, 3 May 2026.
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As you can tell, CVW-7 is Rhino-exclusive when it comes to fixed-wing combat aircraft, carried across five squadrons. This includes the Rampagers of VFA-83, the Jolly Rogers of VFA-103, the Wildcats of VFA-131, and the Gunslingers of VFA-105, all with FA-18E/F models. Added to this are the EA-18G Growlers flown by the Patriots of VAQ-140.
Bush’s AEW is provided by the Sunkings of VAW-116 (E-2C), her rotary wing is made up of the Night Dippers of HSC-5 (MH-60S) and the Griffins of HMS-46 (MH-60R), and she has a support det from the Mighty Bisons of VRM-40 (CMV-22B).
Commissioned 10 January 2009 as the 10th and final Nimitz class carrier, GHWB has always been a Rhino flattop, having her shakedown with CVW-1 off the coast of Virginia that May with three squadrons of FA-18E/F (VFA-11, VFA-136, and VFA-211) rounded out by det of the same type pushed by the Salty Dogs of VX-23 and a Marine F-18C unit (VMFA-251) and a Prowler det and HH-60/SH-60s.
She never knew the touch of the Tomcat, Vigilante, Viking, Crusader, Corsair, Intruder, Skywarrior, or Phantom as her older Cold War sisters did.
Germany long fielded Marineinfanterie units, especially during the World Wars of the 20th Century, along with ship detachments, the latter coming in very handy during the Kaiser’s colonial period (1884-1918).
German marines of III. Seebataillon in Tsingtao, the Kaiser’s China treaty port, which still has a very good German-style distillery. Bundesarchiv, Bild Bild 116-214-09
German Marines in Peking, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion. AWM A05904
Disbanded in 1945, the West German Navy (Bundesmarine) reformed a Seebataillon in 1958, which was disbanded in 1993 when the Cold War thawed.
Now the Marines are back, reformed once again in 2014 as a specialist unit tasked with VBSS via a Bordeinsatzkompanie (BEK) and ship/installation ground defense.
Der Teamführer Hauptbootsmann Alexander West gibt seinen Kameraden ein Handzeichen im Rahmen vom Training der Bordeinsatzkompanie (BEK) der Marine in Eckernförde, am 28.08.2017.
With Europe getting increasingly wacky, starting in 2016, the Seebataillon integrated into the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps (Korps Mariniers) for NATO operations and has been getting ready for offensive operations, under a defensive pretext, of course.
German Seebataillon troops use Sea Kings to operate from the Dutch landing ship Rotterdam (L800), May 2022 Bundeswehr Jana Neumann Bundeswehr/Nico Theska
Recently, 200 Marineinfanteristen undertook a simulated CH-53-borne raid near Hanover– the battalion’s largest combined operation since reformation.
Wir haben Marineinfanteriekräfte des Seebataillons in Celle bei einer Übung begleitet. Sie wurden durch das Ausbildungszentrum Luftbeweglichkeit beübt. Im Schwerpunkt ging es um den luftbeweglichen und abgesetzten Einsatz durch Luftfahrzeuge verschiedener Art und das Gewinnen und Nehmen von Räumen durch die Marineinfanteriekräfte.
Wir haben Marineinfanteriekräfte des Seebataillons in Celle bei einer Übung begleitet. Sie wurden durch das Ausbildungszentrum Luftbeweglichkeit beübt. Im Schwerpunkt ging es um den luftbeweglichen und abgesetzten Einsatz durch Luftfahrzeuge verschiedener Art und das Gewinnen und Nehmen von Räumen durch die Marineinfanteriekräfte.
Wir haben Marineinfanteriekräfte des Seebataillons in Celle bei einer Übung begleitet. Sie wurden durch das Ausbildungszentrum Luftbeweglichkeit beübt. Im Schwerpunkt ging es um den luftbeweglichen und abgesetzten Einsatz durch Luftfahrzeuge verschiedener Art und das Gewinnen und Nehmen von Räumen durch die Marineinfanteriekräfte.
Wir haben Marineinfanteriekräfte des Seebataillons in Celle bei einer Übung begleitet. Sie wurden durch das Ausbildungszentrum Luftbeweglichkeit beübt. Im Schwerpunkt ging es um den luftbeweglichen und abgesetzten Einsatz durch Luftfahrzeuge verschiedener Art und das Gewinnen und Nehmen von Räumen durch die Marineinfanteriekräfte.
Wir haben Marineinfanteriekräfte des Seebataillons in Celle bei einer Übung begleitet. Sie wurden durch das Ausbildungszentrum Luftbeweglichkeit beübt. Im Schwerpunkt ging es um den luftbeweglichen und abgesetzten Einsatz durch Luftfahrzeuge verschiedener Art und das Gewinnen und Nehmen von Räumen durch die Marineinfanteriekräfte.
Wir haben Marineinfanteriekräfte des Seebataillons in Celle bei einer Übung begleitet. Sie wurden durch das Ausbildungszentrum Luftbeweglichkeit beübt. Im Schwerpunkt ging es um den luftbeweglichen und abgesetzten Einsatz durch Luftfahrzeuge verschiedener Art und das Gewinnen und Nehmen von Räumen durch die Marineinfanteriekräfte.
Wir haben Marineinfanteriekräfte des Seebataillons in Celle bei einer Übung begleitet. Sie wurden durch das Ausbildungszentrum Luftbeweglichkeit beübt. Im Schwerpunkt ging es um den luftbeweglichen und abgesetzten Einsatz durch Luftfahrzeuge verschiedener Art und das Gewinnen und Nehmen von Räumen durch die Marineinfanteriekräfte.
“We need highly mobile forces capable of conducting land-based combat in coastal areas,” explains LCDR Timm K., outlining the reason for the current transformation within the Seebataillon. “Previously, the unit provided highly specialized soldiers to the fleet, who, in smaller groups, secured ports and ships, conducted small-scale amphibious landing exercises, and searched civilian vessels for contraband. However, the current threat landscape demands a powerful naval infantry capable of operating on a significantly larger scale.”
Sure, it is not perfect, but it is a better plan than not having a frigate at all, which is what we are doing now. Just wish they at least had 16 VLS cells and some torpedo tubes along with the sensors to use them, that’s all I’m saying…
Via DoW:
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is being awarded a $282,885,933 cost-plus-award-fee contract for FF(X) class frigate lead yard support. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and is expected to be completed by April 2028. Fiscal 2026 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $59,092,397 (73%); and fiscal 2026 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $21,500,339 (27%), will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 3204(a)(2) (unusual and compelling urgency). Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-26-C-2306).
Of course, there is also a push to perhaps buy COTS surface escorts from Japan and/or South Korea, which brings us to the launch this week of the ROK Navy’s fourth FFX Batch-III Frigate, ROKS Jeju (FFG-832).
Jeju is a 3,600-ton-class next-generation frigate, with a full-load displacement of approximately 4,300 tons. The ship is 423 feet long and can reach a maximum speed of 30 knots on a CODEOG plant. She will carry a 5-inch gun (YES!), 16-cell VLS, two triple ASW tubes, 8 TLAM/SLAM-ER equivalents, and a CIWS.
I mean, folks love Hyundai, Kia, LG, and Samsung over here…
The country’s newest fast-attack submarine and the fifth U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name, USS Idaho (SSN 799), was commissioned at SUBASE New London on Saturday, 25 April.
Sailors assigned to the Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Idaho (SSN 799) man the rails during a commissioning ceremony at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn., on April 25, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo 260425-N-UM744-1007 by John Narewski/Submarine Readiness Squadron (SRS) 32)
One of 10 Block IV Virginias, Idaho, carries two multipurpose Virginia Payload Tubes (VPT) forward, seen open in the above image, allowing her to carry and launch a dozen Tomahawks or similar missiles vertically. This is in addition to her 25 slots for Mk-48 ADCAPS or Harpoons fired from her four forward tubes.
The future USS Idaho (SSN 799) seen on builders trials 251215-N-N2201-002
Named for “The Gem State,” SSN 799 will operate as part of SUBRON4 and is expected to have a 33+ year life cycle, surpassing that of the fourth USS Idaho (Battleship No.42), which commissioned in 1919 and, after earning seven battle stars during WWII, was scrapped in 1947.
Nice to see the name return to the Navy List after a nearly 80-year break.
USS Idaho (BB-42) passing through the Panama Canal, c. 1945 National Archives 80-G-K-6572
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) sails in the Atlantic Ocean, April 12, 2026. The George H. W. Bush Carrier Strike Group, comprised of nearly 5,000 Sailors, provides combatant commanders and America’s civilian leaders with increased capacity to underpin American security and economic prosperity, deter adversaries, and project power on a global scale through sustained operations at sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class John R. Farren)
Right now, as noted by open sources (Centcom releases, USNI’s Marine Tracker, etc), we have three carrier strike groups– built around USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), and George H.W. Bush (CVN 77)— as well as two ARGs (USS Boxer and Tripoli), either in the region or steaming there. Tripoli is also deployed with USS New Orleans (LPD-18) and Rushmore (LSD-47) with the 31st MEU embarked, while Boxer is sailing with USS Comstock (LSD-45) and Portland (LPD-27) as well as the 11th MEU.
Centcom confirms this is the first time they have had three CVNs in their area of operation since 2003, and greater than 20,000 assorted Bluejackets and Marines are afloat.
They have no less than 18 Burkes supporting:
USS Mitscher (DDG-57)
USS Gonzalez (DDG-66)
USS Milius (DDG-69)
USS Ross (DDG-71) (Bush CSG)
USS Mahan (DDG-72) (Ford CSG)
USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) (Bush CSG)
USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) (Ford CSG, Air Defense Commander)
USS Bulkeley (DDG-84)
USS Mason (DDG-87) (Bush CSG, Air Defense Commander)
USS Pickney (DDG-91)
USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) (Ford CSG)
USS Spruance (DDG-111) (Lincoln CSG)
USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112)
USS John Finn (DDG-113)
USS Rafael Peralta (DDG-115)
USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) (Ford CSG)
USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119)
USS Frank E. Petersen (DDG-121) (Lincoln CSG, Air Defense Commander)
For those keeping count, that is roughly 300K tons of carriers, 250K tons of ‘Phibs, and 165k tons of destroyers, with the Silent Service’s SSNs and SSGNs not publicized and keeping very silent indeed, and the logistics tail, which never gets any love except from Sal.
So, pushing just shy of a million tons, with three carriers, 18 tin cans, six Gators, and AO/AOE/SS undetailed. Truth be told, that is one serious naval force.
Sadly, there are no Ticos forward deployed to Centcom. Looks like the old girls are sitting this one out, and all the CSGs are using upgraded SM-3 carrying DDGs for the group’s Air Defense Commander roles.
Combat air squadrons embarked include a homogenous 11 F/A-18E/F units (VFA-14, VFA-31, VFA-37, VFA-41, VFA-83, VFA-87, VFA-103, VFA-105, VFA-131, VFA-151, and VFA-213), three of EA-18Gs (VAQ-130, VAQ-133, and VAQ-142) and a single F-35C squadron– the Black Knights of VMFA-314.
Ironically, this puts the Marines, which by trope are given the obsolete stuff the Navy doesn’t want any longer, with the most advanced fighter in squadron service during Epic Fury– leaving the Navy to push 14 assorted squadrons of Rhino! Of further note, there are no F-18C/D models deployed, with the 5-6 legacy squadrons that use these are all stateside Marine dirt-dets, as the last carrier deployment for those little birds was with VMFA-323 in 2021 on Nimitz.
Still, somewhere around 400 embarked aircraft when all the MH-60s aboard the DDGs and the MEU’s air units are counted.
In other sad news, the Navy’s minesweeping solution, the mine module equipped LCSs (USS Canberra, Santa Barbara, and Tulsa) were all pulled out of Bahrain in March and have been notably MIA while two aging Avenger-class sweepers based in Sasebo, USS Chief (MCM-14) and Pioneer (MCM-9), are “speeding” towards the Hormuz, a short 6,600nm jaunt away, a sail of 20 days at their typical 14 knot cruising speed. Of course, that doesn’t include stops to refuel and flirt with monkeys.
What’s left for the rest of the world?
What does this leave for other contingencies?
A MH-60S Sea Hawk, attached to the “Indians” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 6, transports stores to Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) during a vertical replenishment-at-sea in the Pacific Ocean, April 23, 2026. Nimitz is deployed as part of Southern Seas 2026, which seeks to enhance capability, improve interoperability, and strengthen maritime partnerships with countries throughout the region through joint, multinational, and interagency exchanges and cooperation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Johnathan McCune)
Well, of the country’s CVNs, Nimitz is in her slow-motion final cruise around Latin America to begin her deactivation, Stennis is in RCOH (where she has been for five years) and isn’t expected back in the fleet until at least October 2026, Reagan is in DPIA until at least August of 2026, Harry S. Truman (which the Navy wanted to decommission in 2019!) is set to begin her much needed RCOH in June, and JFK won’t commission until the summer of 2027 (a date likely to be pushed back after the lessons learned during Ford’s now epic deployment and saga of underway mechanical casualties).
This leaves on the East Coast the 49-year-old Ike— which is just wrapping up sea trials after a yard stint that was completed early (yes, Virginia, it is possible) and is set to retire in 2028 but probably won’t (see Ford/JFK)– Vinson and Teddy R on the West Coast, and George Washington forward deployed to Japan from where the Navy will keep her as a hedge against China/NorK.
Only four CVNs (USS Carl Vinson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt) can handle the F-35C as they have cooled jet blast deflectors and a hangar bay that is reconfigured to support their maintenance (i.e., ODIN data centers).
Further, speaking to big-deck LHD/LHAs, the Navy only owns nine after the Bon Homme Richard fire, and two are deployed to Epic Fury as noted above. Iwo Jima is assigned to operations off Venezuela right now (delaying a planned $200 million update to operate F-35s), and two others, Essex and Kearsarge, are working up on the East and West coasts, respectively. Of the other four, two are in fairly poor material shape, with Bataan currently receiving heavy maintenance after a fire last December during her two-year-long modernization, and America is undergoing a DSRA at NASSCO until at least July 2027.
Meanwhile, only five big deck ‘phibs (USS Wasp, Essex, America, Makin Island, and Boxer) have had their decks shielded to operate short take off/vertically landing F-35Bs.
The new construction big deck phibs, the future USS Bougainville (LHA-8), Fallujah (LHA-9), and Helmand Province (LHA-10) have had their delivery dates pushed back to July 2027, July 2031, and September 2034, respectively.
Afloat in the Pascagoula River proper is the future USS Bougainville (LHA-8), the first Flight I America-class Lightning carrier, circa March 2026. She still has another 15 months of fitting out and trials to come. Chris Eger
For reference, Bougainville was laid down in March 2019, which would give her an eight-year construction cycle. The first steel on Helmand Province hasn’t even been cut yet, so even 2034 may be optimistic (although Wasp is set to retire that year). Even if Helmand Province arrives in the fleet in 2034 as planned, class leader America (LHA-6) will be 20 years in service then, while the Wasp-class LHDs will be edging to age 40, which is never a good look on a gator (the longest serving Tarawa class, the very high-mileage Peleliu, only spent 34 years and five weeks in commission).
With that foundation under us, it has become super interesting that the Navy has delivered its first disabling gunfire against a large surface vessel since 1988, with several 5″/62 rounds delivered into the engine room of the M/V Touska by the USS Spruance (DDG 111) while operating as part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group.
It was certainly the old “cruiser rules” with Sprunace firing five warning shots and opting to use nine BLP (Blind Loaded Projectile, the blue, steel projectile loaded with inert contents) to wreck Touska’s engine room after several broadcasted warnings and a six-hour pursuit.
Dead in the water, Touska was soon boarded in a night operation by Marines from the 31st MEU carried via helicopter from USS Tripoli (LHA 7). Some real deal VBSS stuff on a 73,000-ton/968-foot Panamax-sized container ship– not your more typical seizure of an unflagged dhow that the Navy has typically done in the past several decades.
Such an incident shows the value of a 5-inch gun aboard a grey hull for just such a moment– and underlines why the Navy’s next frigates (and the Coast Guard’s larger cutters) need such a weapon installed. Bofors 57s aren’t going to get it.
Either way, you know Spruance’s already colorful forward mount will receive some extra paint on its gun house.
U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) approaches fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO-187) before a replenishment-at-sea Jan. 17, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jordan Steis)
Then came the interception of the Iranian-chartered “Botswanan-flagged” (officially stateless) crude carrier M/T Tifani— 156,967 gross tons of shipping– on the 21st in the Bay of Bengal.
Of interest, she was seized by a converted tanker design, with an Expeditionary Sea Base, possibly the Lewis B. Puller-class USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5), seen just off her bow in the photos released by CENTCOM and DoW.
There is no way you can look at that as other than a direct call back to the auxiliary cruisers of the Russo-Japanese War, WWI, and WWII, which typically saw gently converted mail steamers and ocean liners modified with a few guns, some paint, and a military crew, then sent out to halt enemy blockade runners and similar auxiliary cruisers flying the flags of the other guys.
On 22 April, CENTCOM said that it had intercepted a total of 29 ships as part of the now nine-day-old blockade, including five Iranian-flagged/contracted/controlled tankers (Diona, Sevin, Dorena, Derya, and Deep Sea).
To wit, the IRCG has also said they have bagged a couple of ships of their own.
