Posted on 11/13/2017 8:02:10 AM PST by Rebelbase
he United States Navy has conducted a rare three-carrier strike force exercise in the Western Pacific over the weekend the first such meeting in more than a decade.
The exercise involved the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) strike groups, along with ships from the Republic of Korea Navy and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.
The exercise meant to demonstrate the U.S. Navys capability to operate multiple carrier strike groups as a coordinated strike force effort. It included conduct air defense drills, sea surveillance, replenishment at sea, defensive air combat training, close-in coordinated maneuvers and other training.
This is the first time that three carrier strike groups have operated together in the Western Pacific since exercises Valiant Shield 2006 and 2007 off the coast of Guam.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
LOL, everyone is bugged out they are so close together, but it is very clearly a photo op.
The whole time I was on a carrier, I don’t think we were ever within sight of another carrier launching planes!
Just a photo-op, FRiends! (Thanks for the ping, Chode!)
It is 100% just a photo op formation, Jou Boucher.
They likely did it for about an hour on the way to begin the exercise or something...
ang the Carrier CAP is always up!!
I understand that this visual has an audience of 1: Short Fat Boy.
But really, a line of sitting ducks?
If the ChiComs had some idea it was time to kick off WWIII, that’s a really bad starting line.
Different subject from the same link.
The Navy must have paid these guys to have a collision with land to have somebody worse at navigation than they are:
http://gcaptain.com/watch-security-camera-catches-tanker-running-aground-on-cape-fear-river/
The captains of those carriers should have been plum puckered up no matter how well the Sea of Japan had been swept before that three abeam photo.
What about the Chinese, NORKS, Iranians, Russians all working on “Carrier Killer”, one-shot missile, capable of sinking an entire flattop???
Shouldnt there be many more ships protecting those flattops? Ten seems like enough for one carrier.
>Maybe there would be more if they (two of them) hadn’t had collisions with merchant ships. Thanks to these mishaps, the Navy is down two very important guided missile destroyers.
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