MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : The blocking of the Suez Canal: the next time, it could be the result of terror

A report by the Rand Corporation found that even in 2013 an old ship could be easily turned into a remote-controlled attack vessel, even one controlled by satellite communications 

Dan Arkin | 3/04/2021 ISRAEL DEFENSE MAGAZINE

The blocking of the Suez Canal by a giant container ship was an accident, but next time the blocking of the waterway could be caused by an intentional act of war or terror.

In an article on the Defense One website, Scott Savitz, an engineer and researcher for the Rand Corporation, describes the blocking of shipping routes by ships as an ancient method of war. There were those kinds of operations 1,000 years ago. The British used that method in the two world wars. And in 2014, the Russians blocked entrance to and exit from a port in the Crimean Peninsula by sinking two old ships, thus trapping the majority of the Ukrainian fleet within the port, which made it easier to take over Crimea.

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