Very, very nice.
right there in Guam
I count 54 aircraft and helos on deck
Five AEGIS DDGs and one AEGS CG right there...care takers of that carrier.
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right there in Guam
I count 54 aircraft and helos on deck
Five AEGIS DDGs and one AEGS CG right there...care takers of that carrier.
Guam has its dock for the carrier at its mooring in Apra Harbor, U.S. Naval Base Guam (NBG), and docks for the DDGs. also in Apra Harbor, as shown.I see cranes seems new, unusual the CVN alone and Popeye catch in first
And those pictures show them rather nicely.
Carriers have been visiting Apra Harbor Guam for sometime. In fact USS Midway(CVA 41) visited there in May of 1975 to off load Vietnamese evacuees and recovered RVN aircraft. Midway anchored out in Guam.
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Very, very nice.
right there in Guam
I count 54 aircraft and helos on deck
Five AEGIS DDGs and one AEGS CG right there...care takers of that carrier.
The Seventh Fleet could be if needed supplement the Reagan Strike group with a total of;
3 SSNs
2 Ticonderoga class CGs
7 Arleigh Burke DDGs
1 Command ship
all this is stationed in Yokosuka or Guam.
Allow me Popeye but you have number of 2014, now 3 CG, 8 DDG + 1 in 2017 and 4 SSNs with it you can do 2 TF.
Naval Today said:
Simply awesome.
...and note, these are the 158th, 159th, and 160th test launches of a missile we know a lot about, and have a HUGE and long record with.
Just goes to show, even then, how critical live fire testing of these systems is.
For those who think a system like the DF-21D could be seriously deployed and relied upon to defend a nation without such testing...well, having been involved in the design of larger naval systems, and missiles systems like THAAD, it is just a ludicrous.notion.
The Chinese have a DF-21D program. And they certainly have some missiles deployed. But they have never carried out such a full-up, live test against targets at sea.
Such testing is absolutely critical, as the US shows itself with continued testing of even very mature systems.
If you want to depend on them...and rely upon them to do the job...you test them in as close to the actual environment as you can devise.
BTW, this particular night time launch picture is simply awesome.
I stand corrected! Thank you.
This my friends is a lot of firepower..
Seventh Fleet ships assigned to Yokosuka;
Command Ship
- - flagship, .
(COMDESRON 15)
- - Transition to Seventh Fleet, Summer 2017
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