PHOTOS: U.S. Navy’s Three-Carrier Strike Force Exercise in Western Pacific

G-Captain ^ | November 13, 2017 | G-Captain

[rlmorel]

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!)

[rlmorel]

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...

[SandRat]

ang the Carrier CAP is always up!!

[Uncle Miltie]

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.

[Sequoyah101]

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.

[Daaave]

There are at least two cruisers in this photo. One behind each outboard carrier. There would normally be more support ships with just one carrier attack group. Depending on each mission, there would be the oilers and replinishment ships. Those ships could be kept at a safe distance from the attack group. Or they could remain in port. I would expect to see a command and control ship for a large important operation. But that ship could also remain in port until needed.

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[Netz]

What about the Chinese, NORKS, Iranians, Russians all working on “Carrier Killer”, one-shot missile, capable of sinking an entire flattop???

[sasportas]

Shouldn’t 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.