Yemeni Navy

Yemeni Navy and Coastal Defence Forces
Yemeni Navy and Coastal Defence Forces
القوات البحرية اليمنية والدفاع الساحلي
	Logo of the Yemeni Navy
Active	1990–present
Country	Yemen
Allegiance	Yemen
Branch	Navy
Type	Navy
Role	Intelligence assessment; Maritime patrol; Maritime safety; Maritime search and rescue; Maritime security operations; Minesweeping; Naval warfare
Part of	Yemeni Armed Forces
Naval Headquarters	Aden
Colors	Black, white and gold
Anniversaries	22 May 1990
Equipment	2 corvette; 8 Missile boat; 15 patrol craft; 3 Minesweeper; 5 landing craft
Engagements	Yemeni Civil War (1994); Houthi insurgency in Yemen; Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen; Yemeni revolution; Yemeni civil war (2014–present) Operation Prosperity Guardian; Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict; ; ;
Commanders
Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Navy	Vice Admiral Abdullah Salim Al-Nakhei
Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Armed Forces	Lieutenant General Sagheer Hamoud Aziz
Insignia
Flag of the Yemeni Navy

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.