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A Look Inside The World's Largest Naval Exercise
The US Navy, perhaps ironically, begins their introduction to RIMPAC by saying "The future is maritime partnerships." Of course, there is the ubiquitous hashtag (#PartnershipsMatter) and statement of fellowship, "The world’s navies must be able to come together quickly to work on common interests and things that are important worldwide." Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel have come together (including China for the first time and The US but not Russia) for the exercise. One wonders just how much 'partnerships matter' when Russia pulls the pin on its sanctions retaliation (especialy in light of the recent drills with China).
The US Navy's images...
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) leads a close formation of 42 ships and submarines from 15 international partnership nations during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014.
The littoral combat ship USS Independence (LCS 2) is underway during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014.
An MH-53 Sea Dragon helicopter from Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM) 14 deploys a Mk-105 sled from USS Anchorage (LPD 23) well deck, part of air mine countermeasure operations during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014.
Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Eric Bruce and Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Michael Bloodworth launch a landing craft air cushion, assigned to Amphibious Craft Unit (ACU) 5 in the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014.
Aviation Structural Mechanic (Equipment) Airman Antony Hopson cleans the cockpit of an F/A-18 Super Hornet aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).
An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Black Knights of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4 operates near USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and the People’s Republic of China medical ship Peace Ark (T-AH 866) during a close formation of 42 ships and submarines from 15 international partner nations during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014.
Sailors transport a New Zealand sailor from an MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to The Blackjacks of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 21 while conducting a medical evacuation training exercise between the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) and the New Zealand navy multirole vessel HMNZS Canterbury (L421) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014.
Ships gather in formation aft of the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) during Rim of The Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014.
This is China's first appearance at RIMPAC...
And we wonder if the last?
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B5?
Miss.
F8?
Miss
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I especially love the reason "and things that matter" explanation as to "why".
Kinda medieval in it's intellectual complexity and insight
...sailing sailing over the ocean blue, you'll never get rich....
toy boats, toy boats.........
A single Russian FOAB (Father of All Bombs) will surely send to the bottom of the sea that entire flotilla. Moreover, that ordnance being delivered from a Tu-160 strategic bomber will definitively guarantee the desired outcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJzASnmmxIM
I hope the MIC realizes that if they actually defeat Russia and China then there is no reason for their continued existence.
Unless we come down with a bad case of evil space aliens that is....
There will be no one around to savour the 'win'.
Yep, US overlords once again demonstrate that they sure know how to PAC a RIM.
By far, the largest 'naval exersize' to date within the CONUS is getting the 'pleasantly plump' (that is, the FAT CHICKS and the FAT DUDES that inhabit the former FREE UNITED STATES) to evacuate their bowels before going back to GMO-infested places like McDonald's and Burger King to get their next fix (and take some Prozac and rub their fat bellies before going home to their self-imposed slavery and turning on their tele-visions).
The NEW PARADIGM seems to be self-centered around (or, 'ROUND') the debate between the 'innies' and the 'outies' (as far as 'NAVALS' are concerned).
MEANWHILE, SATAN (LAUGHING) SPREADS HIS WINGS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GRR_n_yQGA
They reject their own prophets.
American Battleship !!!
That looks really really expensive.
"That looks really really expensive."
AND you and I are paying for it!
Navy's are outdated. One ICBM and all of those are sunk.
as they say keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
in all seriousness there has not been a single substantial unclassified naval conflict since world war 2 other than the falklands and israeli syrian naval actions.
think about that. for all the bluster about boats ( we're not talking submarines here ) ----it remains to be seen how naval conflicts between major superpowers would play out in a future war.
ww2 made slow armor and major fortifications obsolete, both horse drawn artillery and maginot line fortifications were decisively left in the strategic dust of war history.
the rise of air-power and missile power sattelites for information and submarines for lurking stealth attacks have certainly progressed so much since world war 2 as to make the usage of naval fleets in the next world war rather hard to predict.
as you predict well---a substantial nuclear bomb would take out much of an entire fleet if they were ever in a close grouping, so it is obvious major navies will not group their fleets too close together. that said---between missiles , air power submarines and a host of modern sophisticated naval MINES and naval drones--------it's become increasingly unpredictable.
i'm not predicting anything, but it may be that the era of the big ships that carry entire cities worth of human beings and military hardware-----the super sized dreadnoughts we renamed super-carriers and destroyers-----may be over.
larger fleets of smaller more sophisticated electronic ships might be the future of naval warfare. especially when you take into consideration that amphibious beach warfare that we saw during world war 2 may be completely a thing of history when it involves invasions. why? because the need to land heavy artillery and tank columns on beach front might be totally a thing of the past.
as technology goes, war goes, and technology is getting smaller , lighterweight, faster, and more easily deliverable by air rather than boat.
i'm not talking about the 'revolution in military affairs' that rumsfeld was a part of, i'm just talking the general thrust of technology changing warfare. technology has ALWAYS CHANGED WARFARE and it always will.
slap some boosters on those boats and blast them up out into space in hopes of finding some cool shit, not blow the shit out of other humans.
Wow.
So many BILLION dollar targets...
"VAMPIRE VAMPIRE BEARING 180 SPEED 3300!! MULTIPLE BOGEYS!! THEY'RE - - -"
---Transmission ends---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-800_Oniks
FUCK Wikipedia.
SERIOUSLY.
I can edit it MYSELF, and so can the COMMIE-SYMP-GRESS in the FEDRES territory ('D.C.').
'VAMPIRE SQUID! VAMPIRE SQUID! Redshield false bogey locking on and deploying time-warp tech! Manipulation of Fiat Currencies immentent in creating a near-future 'Banker War' rift! COLLAPSE IMMINENT!'
I remember this stuff from a long time back.
This song was actually quite popular in Australia, the year I left there; on the Amplitude Modulated radio spectrums. Bunch of fucking Aussie Queen-worshipping socialists...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic
Now, it's been 10,000 years. I heard a band named 'Kansas', who once referred to this same theme back in the 1970's. They were a little more 'real', though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnijc9wNpV4
Think of the toys they have we dont see...
Obama's Navy. The military and Pentagon have no clue about uopholding The Constitution from the criminals. No honor.
weak video...you would think they could do better.
IRS has all the video production equipment tied up with Star Trek and Giligan's Island tax dramas.
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The US Navy: A Global Force Against Good
Those ads are creepy. All those nice young people looking just a tad more malevolent than a normal person not brainwashed or on some form of mind altering substances, claiming a force for good, each and every one of 'em armed to the teeth.
Creepy, dude.
Bad job of Perceptions Management. Should have been a lot smoother.
Well, this video is kinda coarse, too, what?
Huh
Reminds me of my drunken Uncle Phil with his olde Kodak Super 8 during a boozy BBQ
100% of the seas, we watch, the all knowing eye!
HAHA
HAHAHA
MUAHAHAHAHA!
*commence bout of evil laughter*
Those commercials are way creepy. It's all video gamey and stuff. Goodness!
A global force for the banksters.
I spent much of my adult life as a naval officer, and I'm not a fan of the new recruiting propaganda either. The Navy went from the Reagan era "Full Speed Ahead!" and "It's not just a job, it's an adventure!" to this gay-ass "Global Force for Good" garbage. The purpose of these slogans is supposed to be to get piss-and-vinegar 18 year olds to actually WANT to join. The new propaganda seems more geared to attracting effeminate metrosexuals.
About 10 years ago, the Army one-upped the Navy with bad recruiting videos when they came up with their "Army of One" rubbish. The whole point of military training is to instill the idea that each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine is a link in the chain - that we're all part of a team larger than ourslves. "Army of One" my ass.
I do still love the USMC recruiting ad where the dude negotiates several dangerous obstacles in a Lord-of-the-Rings-esque lair, climbs to the top of some volcano thing, draws a sword, and fights the lava monster. Hell, that made ME want to join the Marine Corps!
As a former squid, all I can think of is those poor, poor souls on watch....
Ditto.
Might want to spread those suckers out a little.
One Czar Bomba and "we have less of a fleet.". Always good to see everyone getting along commerce wise though.
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Ah, tactical thinking from the era of I Love Lucy. Somehow it doesn't age as well as those old TV reruns.
With modern anti-ship missiles and cavitating torpedoes, the biggest release of radiation will be from the carrier's reactors on the ocean floor.
As one strategist put it....there are two types of ships, targets and submarines.
The navies wont matter.....the side that thinks it is losing will push 'the button'... to give themselves an even chance.
How well Americans tolerate war when a nuke goes off over NYC or even a conventional super bomb daisy cutter, then you have dirty bombs, and so on....Navies wont matter.
Three of four high altitude EMP blasts will trash the US economy in seconds as our 'civilisation' is 100% reliant on information technology. No coms. no food supply chain, no freash water or sewage disposal, etc. Most cities only have food for a couple of weeks and the shelves will be emptied in 24hours. Then there are the nuke power stations and fuel cooling ponds.....
I read an article on Dave Hodge's site where he talked about the EMP's, and that the navy/air force being stationed off the coasts at this time was suspect. A way of saving some of our forces if there were an EMP attack - and also, keeping the military off shore so foreign UN troops could come take all of our guns with little resistance. It's great doom-porn, I highly recommend his site: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/
I recall reading in the 1980s that the Russians preferred to make miniscule vacuum tubes rather than convert to transistors for military applications. Back then there was also lots of money going into research to make military grade semiconductor devices that were impervious to EMPs. After all these years, EMPs may only be a threat to civilian equipment.
OTH, if you let loose an EMP over Tel Aviv, you won't have Nuttynyahoo embarrassing O, and Nutty will have other problems.
Not just Tel Aviv... One of those suckers over any Western™ city would turn the whole place inside out overnight as people so used to plastic cards carrying their lives forward in payment suddenly find antiquities such as coins and *gasp* commodities as currency. Man isn't used to that kind of change overnight lol.
RIMPAC
I'm there, dude.
Armageddon - Donbass. It is spreading
#NotMyWar
The USN invited the chinese for the 1st time to RIMPAC & the chinese respond by sending a spy ship to collect communication intelligence of other Allied ships.
The Navy brass is so pissed at the insolence & insensitivity of the chinese. I wonder what the chinese were thinking in their heads????????
The Chinese can't help themselves, this kind of behaviour is in their DNA.
They literally have no shame.
LOL! The Navy, Pentagon and Military do Obama and the NWO's bidding. Who cares what they think?
We saw how the "navy Brass" sold out the USS Liberty. No honor.
The Chinese were certainly invited, but since it was for the first time their role was limited to providing the token spy ship.
There's really nothing odd about this matter.
Didn't The Prez at the West Point graduation ceremony last month (while chewing gum and looking bored) state that the future of the military (assumed he included Navy whilst addressing Army leaders) was to dedicate itself to combat global warming? What does that big raft-up in the Pacific have to do with combating global warming?
Why should Obama have any respect for the military? They know nothing about upholding The Constitution against foreign and domestic enemies. They do nothing to protect American citizens so he does not respect them. He and his gang do whatever they want. If you have kids or relatives - don't let them join the military.
The Egyptian Army, Syrians and a few others put their citizens first.
Pity HMS Portland - "the Loveboat" wasn't involved. I really think the Royal Navy in the UK should be transferred to Cunard. They are only floating brothels anyway
What navy? Has the UK still got one?
Yes. Ted Heath's old sailboat, Bungahoy.
Kept for the symbolic reasoning as espoused by Churchill as to the value of HMRN's noble traditions of "the lash, rum and buggery"
That was the one the Brit media is claiming upon which he used to bugger the small boys on just off the Jersey, Channel Islands harbor and dump the little kids over the stern (ah the symbolic symmetry of the entire cosmos) when done. Along with a whole bloody host of other royals, Sirs, Knights, OBEs, Lords, assorted foreign dignitaries, notable twisted entertainers such as Jimmie Saville, Bilderbergers, Trilateralists, Bohemian Grovers, minor pedophiles and voyeurs.
"It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it." - Samuel Johnson (I believe).
"Stand down, drop your cocks, pick up your socks and mutiny you fucking bozos!" - Admiral Bloody Admirable, The Society Islands
And where does the money come from to pay for all of this fun?
dumbest idea i ever heard. dumbest formation i ever saw.
I contend it is not about ships that are sitting ducks because of new technology. A struggle is occurring to unseat America as the worlds most dominate nation. For many proud Americans who see the world from the unenlightened and possibly undefendable position of the United States having a right to be in control it is both threatening and frustrating to see control slip away.
It is threatening to think America might quickly fall to the position of a second rate power mired in debt with many of the options we have come to see as our right suddenly ripped away. It is frustrating that in many ways the country has become its own worse enemy guilty of political inaction and squandering its power through a series of bad choices and missteps. More on this shift in power and our best response in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/06/americas-struggle-to-stay-on-top....