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Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) while underway in the Indian Ocean.USS Mustin is forward-deployed and assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest DESRON and U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force. The Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific.

PT torpedo boats under construction at the Higgins Industries shipyard in New Orleans in June 1943. Built of wood and with powerful gasoline engines, they showed their capability in the Pacific despite their fragility.

JS Kaga (DDH-184), an Izumo-class helicopter destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force. The vessel is undergoing modifications to operate F-35B stealth fighters, effectively becoming a light aircraft carrier.

This image was taken during the IPD26 (Indo-Pacific Deployment 2026) mission, which departed from the Kure naval base in Japan in June 2026.

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57) returned to Naval Station Norfolk June 16, concluding an 11-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operations.

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HMSPWLS is now operating 12 F-35Bs, participating in NATO Exercise Ramstein Flag 2026 (June 8 to 19) conducted across more than 20 locations from Norway to Spain. Jets from the carrier conducted a hot-pit refuelling at Pirkkala Air Base, Finland, yesterday.

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