- Emblème institutionnel · officiel
- Emblème de catégorie Vigil · pas un insigne officiel
Provenance de l’identité
Institutional emblem: European emblem — EUNAVFOR ASPIDES is a body of the European Union. The European emblem, drawn in IconSprite.astro from the European Commission's graphical specification of it (blue field; twelve upright five-pointed gold stars on a circle of radius one third of the height, at the twelve hour positions, each inscribed in a circle of one eighteenth of the height). No file is fetched and no mission logo is reproduced. The emblem identifies the institution this mission belongs to; it is not a mark issued to the mission and implies no endorsement of Vigil.
La petite marque carrée est un emblème de catégorie Vigil, établi à partir du domaine, de l’échelon et du rôle propres à cette fiche — pas un insigne officiel.
En bref
L’opération navale défensive de l’Union européenne pour la liberté de navigation, lancée en février 2024 contre la campagne houthie visant la navigation — mandatée jusqu’en février 2027, élargie en 2026 à la surveillance du détroit d’Ormuz, et la seule structure militaire de ce module qui répond à Bruxelles.
- Périmètre
- Structure, rôle, filiation et liens. Aucune fiche subordonnée publiée.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmée
- Sources
- 3 dans la fiche
- État de la fiche
- Partiel
- Zone d’activité générale
- The Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, with monitoring of the Gulf of Oman, the Gulf and the strait
- Historique notable
- The Council launched Aspides in February 2024 as a defensive operation against the Houthi campaign that had been attacking merchant shipping in the Red Sea since late 2023 — an EU answer, under EU command, to a threat the American-led constructs answered with strikes the Union would not join. Its ships escorted merchant vessels and engaged the drones and missiles fired at them. The mandate was extended in February 2025 and again in February 2026, to 28 February 2027, and the 2026 decision widened the operation's area to include monitoring of the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf and added the collection of information on arms trafficking and shadow fleets. That makes it the European structure whose water is this module's, on both of the Gulf's chokepoints, and the Houthi blockade of Saudi-bound shipping declared at Bab el-Mandeb in July 2026 is the second campaign its mandate has met.
- Points forts
- A defensive mandate that European states could join without joining the war, an escort record on the Red Sea, and a 2026 remit that reaches the strait.
- Limites
- Few ships for a great deal of water, a mandate that forbids the strikes that changed Houthi behaviour, and dependence on member states' contributions that fluctuate. Its own accounts are a participant's. No vessels, contributions or escorts are recorded.
Organisations associées
- Forces armées houthies En opposition · au 2026-09 · confiance élevée
The operation exists to protect shipping from the Houthi campaign and has engaged Houthi drones and missiles in defence of merchant vessels. Its mandate is defensive: it does not conduct strikes on Yemen.
Filiation et histoire institutionnelle
Lieux associés
Bab el-Mandeb: The operation's principal area; no vessel, position or escort is described.
Actions rapides
Accès au système
Là où cette fiche se rattache au reste de Vigil. Chaque ligne figure ici parce que cette organisation y aboutit effectivement.
Évalué au — 2026-09 Dernière revue — 2026-09-09
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