Yemeni Navy

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The Yemeni Navy, officially the Yemeni Navy and Coastal Defence Forces, is the maritime component of the Yemeni Armed Forces. The navy was created in 1990 when North and South Yemen united, bringing together the two small naval forces organized since 1970 by both the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. The Yemeni Navy was initially a very small and virtually non-existent force, as it lacked a sufficient naval fleet and struggled to enforce the smuggling of drugs that entered Yemen by sea. Equipped mainly with light combat units and amphibious vessels of Soviet origin, the Yemeni naval forces developed as a small coastal navy dedicated to patrolling the coastline and the national exclusive economic zone.

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