The USS Spruance "disabled Touska's propulsion by firing several rounds from the destroyer's 5-inch MK 45 Gun into Touska's engine room," CENTCOM stated.

The fire broke out aboard USS Zumwalt at 9:45 p.m. Sunday when the destroyer was pierside at a naval shipyard in Pascagoula. It was extinguished by the crew, USNI News reported. Z

CENTCOM released video of a U.S. Navy destroyer warning an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel before firing on it as it allegedly tried to run the blockade.

The directive to turn its weapons on the boats adds a new element to the Navy's mine-clearing operations in the strait, which began this month.

The Navy welcomed its newest destroyer USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG-124) into the fleet Saturday during a ceremony in Norfolk, Va., which is among the last Flight IIA configurations of the Arleigh Burke-class.

The crews of all three merchant vessels seized by the U.S. military over the past week are still in U.S. custody, Gen. Dan Caine said at a briefing Friday. “We will continue to conduct similar maritime interdiction actions and activities in the Pacific and Indian Oceans against Iranian ships and vessels of the Dark Fleet,