The Carl Vinson CSG left San Diego in August last year and consists of Carl Vinson with embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, cruiser Lake Champlain, destroyers Chafee, USS Dewey (DDG-105), USS O’Kane (DDG-77), USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), and USS Stockdale (DDG-106). Navy release stated that the training operations included integrated maritime strike missions, maritime interdiction operations, anti-submarine warfare, replenishment-at-sea and formation maneuvering/navigation operations, “These operations are the latest events in strengthening naval readiness and interoperability in the Indo-Pacific region.”Īircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 and CVW 9 fly over the Philippine Sea as Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer JS Hyuga (DDH 181), America-class amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6), Wasp-class landing helicopter dock USS Essex (LHD-2), Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG-111), Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG-53), Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG-90), Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG-101) and Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) transit the Philippine Sea on Jan. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) had earlier completed joint expeditionary strike force training operations in the South China Sea on Jan. deploying 18 F-35Bs aboard Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth (R06) and the Vinson’s ten F-35Cs making a total of 28 then. The exercise in October marked was a major muster of naval F-35s from a variety of nations, with the U.K. The exercise was the largest assembly of U.S naval F-35s to date with a total of 26 aircraft 10 Navy F-35Cs with the “Argonauts” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 from Naval Air Station Lemoore are embarked aboard Vinson, while 10 Marine Corps F-35Cs from the “Black Knights” of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314 from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., are aboard Lincoln and six Marine F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing variant aircraft operate aboard America.
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“Nothing reaffirms our commitment to a free and open Indo Pacific like Carrier Strike Groups, Amphibious Ready Groups sailing alongside our close friends from the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force,” said Vice Adm. The exercises were the largest drills involving aviation-capable ships since the October exercise with the U.S Navy’s Ronald Reagan and Carl Vinson carrier strike groups, the Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21) and the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) Escort Flotilla 2. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Two U.S carriers and two amphibious ships, along with their escorts and 26 F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters drilled with a Japanese large deck warship last week in the Philippine Sea. Pacific Fleet, units assigned to Carl Vinson and Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Groups, Essex and America Amphibious Ready Groups, and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 and CVW 9 fly over the Philippine Sea on Jan.