A fleet of littoral combat ships, with plenty of tomahawk missiles, patrolling the Levantine Sea.
A fleet of littoral combat ships,
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Those made are way over budget, underarmed, undermanned, and basically defenseless aluminum cans which will burn at first hit dearth traps. Which is why no more are going to be made.
Not to pill on but the Med is now basically a Russian pond
those littorals are no match for any Russian ship currently in the Med - further the S-300/400 systems at Tartos would take them out before they got within range to launch any sort of missile - if they had any.