#BREAKING: Five IRGC boats tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf today. The Iranians ordered the tanker to change course and stop in nearby Iranian territorial waters. HMS Montrose was escorting the tanker and trained its deck guns at them.…

HMS Montrose: A Type-23 frigate. Sea Wolf (surface-to-air missiles), Harpoons, Sting Ray torpedo tubes, 4.5 in Mk8 naval gun, 2 - 30mm DS30 MK2 guns (some use DS30Bs).

Pentagon officials seem to have made this a key element to point out to the media, suggesting its highly probable we get video released pretty soon. https://t.co/1H0zMkzGbp

This incident following a warning from @HassanRouhani that the #UK "will see the consequences" after @RoyalMarines seized an oil tanker of #Iran that was headed to #Syria.

The @RoyalNavy frigate HMS Montrose issued a warning to the IRGC vessels and an escalation was averted, according to military officials.

Boats try to stop British tanker off Iranian coast https://t.co/OzlaIbrCAC

This about fits the time when the British Heritage and HMS Montrose would have been passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Pretty good assumption the video of the attempted IRGC seizure in the Persian Gulf would have been filmed by this US Navy P-3 Orion.…

Excellent job @HMS_MONTROSE 🙏

Five Iranian attack vessels unssucessfully tried to seize a U.K oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, but were then scattered after British frigate turned its guns on them. U.K now 2-0 up in Tanker Wars

Officials say a US surveillance aircraft was overhead & recorded video of the incident. The Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose had been escorting the tanker from the rear. It trained its deck guns on the Iranians & gave them a verbal warning to back away which…

Scratch that last tweet. Hearing the Iranians attempted to stop the British tanker approx 7 hours ago according to @LucasFoxNews Pentagon sources. So likely P-8 Poseidon filmed the incident. https://t.co/aFlkClQPa3

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I love living in a country where the social welfare of our veterans is decided by whether or not our president retweets something. https://t.co/HOkf6T8J92

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This wasn't a center sonde, but a dropsonde from the NOAA plane to the northeast of the apparent center found a surface pressure of 1009 mb, lower than all surrounding observations by 2-3 mb, suggesting that the nascent core of #PTC02 might be beginning to…

Low-end TS possible come morning. Large convection burst really gave it away. https://t.co/xvjW5Jwr2x

This says it all.

#FLASH: The United States Forces Korea (USFK) has said that North Korea's Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is capable of reaching anywhere in the U.S. mainland, its first official assessment of the long-range missile - @YonhapNews

N. Korea's Hwasong-15 ICBM can strike anywhere in U.S. mainland: USFK https://t.co/saWhLREH4z

Earthquake: 4.5 quake hits north of Ridgecrest https://t.co/KaLVP35dlQ