In 2021 the forward deployed Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose completed an overhaul at the site.
The UK currently operates a land and naval domain logistics hub at Duqm drydock and has utilised the site’s facilities to conduct ship repairs and maintenance. Nearby Oman has also invested heavily in maritime drydock facilities at Duqm, on the Indian Ocean coast, which is able to accommodate commercial tankers far larger than the biggest US Navy warships, the Gerald Ford-class aircraft carriers. US Navy warships have previously used Jebel Ali in the UAE for mid-deployment voyage repairs. In the Indian Ocean region, the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, based at the US Navy Support Activity at Mina Salman in Bahrain, can utilise sites in the Kingdom or its Gulf neighbours for ship maintenance and repair.
Adding another element to US regional support networkįar from being short of maintenance facilities in the region, the US Navy can call up on a number of allies and partners in the Indian Ocean and Pacific for ship repair and maintenance. “ aim here is to make India a logistics hub for US and other partners in the Indo-Pacific region,” the DoD spokesperson said. One aspect of this would be the creation of naval ship repair and maintenance hubs in India, which would be able to be used by US and other allies.
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