Contents tagged with US Navy
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New US warship enters Black Sea
The USNS Carson City (T-EPF-7) transport ship has entered the Black Sea, the Ukrainian Military Portal reports. The Carson City is the first ship of the JHSV type to pass through Bosporus and enter the Black Sea. Ships of this class are multipurpose, designed to operate in fairways and shallow harbors, and capable of transporting troops, equipment, cargo, and of carrying out humanitarian missions.
The ship can hold one infantry battalion or other divisions of average size, even with equipment …
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US Navy destroyer enters the Black Sea
US Navy Destroyer USS Carney DDG 64 entered the Black Sea, as on the website of the 6th fleet of the US Navy.
“The Carney destroyer entered the Black Sea in order to conduct maritime security operations,” the statement reads.
The purpose of the destroyer’s arrival is to interact with allies and partners in the region. The Navy stressed that the Carney’s arrival in the Black Sea demonstrates the unchanged US commitment to security in the region.
Carney belongs to the early “Arleigh Burke- …
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US Navy Officer: delivery of Javelin missile systems to Ukraine is only a symbolic step
In a broadcast of the program Edge of War, US Navy Captain (Ret.) Gary Tabach expressed the view that the US allocation of Javelin anti-tank missile systems to Ukraine is more a symbol than a necessity.
"I believe that this is more of a symbol that shows that the US and President Donald Trump are very serious about this and are ready to give weapons that can strike Russian tanks. This is a small amount of Javelin [weapons] and shells for them, but Ukraine does not need them; Ukraine cannot be …
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US to equip the entire Navy with lasers weapons
Laser weapons Helios will replace the MK-15 Phalanx antiaircraft artillery systems in the US Navy.
According to the Daily Star, super-powerful weapons will be installed on all US Navy warships and will be able to protect them from a variety of threats, including drones.
"We are talking about lasers, which now have the power and beam structure necessary to protect against unmanned aerial vehicles, small ships, as well as some short-range weapons," the sources of the newspaper noted.
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Media: Russian ships monitoring US fleet off Syrian coast
TASS and RIA Novosti report that Russian warships and submarines are monitoring the movements of US and NATO ships in the eastern Mediterranean. The publications cite military and diplomatic sources.
According to the publications’ sources, Russian forces "are continuously monitoring, from a close distance, US Navy and their NATO ally warships and submarines in the Eastern Mediterranean." The ships have not left the logistics center in Tartus due to the expectations of a strike in Syria, the …
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American destroyer with Tomahawk missiles entered the Mediterranean Sea
According to the command of the 6th Fleet of the United States, Destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill joined the Mediterranean group of ships of the US Navy. The ship carries several dozen cruise missiles. "The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) entered the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations April 10, 2018, to conduct a routine deployment in support of U.S. maritime security interests, increased regional stability and forward naval presence in the U.S. 6 …
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US sends Navy strike group with aircraft carrier to Mediterranean Sea
Headed by the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, a U.S. Navy strike group will depart from Norfolk, Virginia on April 11 and head to the Mediterranean for deployment in the Middle East and off the coast of Europe. This is the first combat mission of the aircraft carrier after undergoing ten months of repairs, reports the military newspaper Stars and Stripes.
In addition to the aircraft carrier, the strike group includes the USS Normandy guided-missile cruiser, and the destroyers USS Arleigh …
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US begins submarine exercises in Arctic
The US Navy has begun a five-week submarine exercise off the north coast of Alaska. The “Ice Exercises 2018” or ICEX18 will involve breaking through Arctic ice and the collection of scientific data.
“We are constantly testing new tactics, techniques and procedures under the ice, and this exercise will enable us to do this on a larger scale, alongside our British and academic partners,” said Rear Admiral James Pitts, commander of the Undersea Warfare Development Center.The Navy will establish a …
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Large US landing ship with 500 marines enters the Black Sea
On Wednesday, March 7, the USS Oak Hill LSD 51 landing ship entered Black Sea waters. A photograph of the vessel’s passage through the Bosphorus Strait was published by the Istanbul information portals, Interfax reports.
“A large American landing ship, with divisions of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit with roughly 500 marines on board, is currently moving north towards the coast of Romania,” the report states.
The command of the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet said that the ship is going to take …
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Two US Navy missile destroyers entered the Black Sea
Two United States Navy missile destroyers, the USS Carney and the USS Ross entered the Black Sea on Saturday, February 17. The press-service of the Navy’s 6th Fleet recalled that the last time the two warships were in the Black Sea at the same time was July 2017, during the joint US-Ukrainian exercises called “Sea Breeze.”
The decision to send two ships into the Black Sea was made in advance to carry out Maritime security operations.
The USS Carney is equipped with an Aegis missile defense …