529 RAF personnel will deploy on CSG25 (approx 22 people per jet if 24 embarked). Contrast with 113 RAF personnel on CSG21 (with 8 jets). Lesson from Jet lost overboard in November 2021 was lack of carrier operating experience plus understrength overwork/fatigued air engineers. (USMC deployed with 25 people per jet on CSG21).

 

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What appears to be a Japanese variant of an electromagnetic railgun gun, for the Maritime Self-Defense Force on the test ship “Asuka ASE-6102”. The gun turret and barrel have an angular shape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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USS Gravely (DDG 107) Surface Warriors Train with U.S. Coast Guardsmen While Underway in Support of the Southern Border Mission.

 

 

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HMS Monmouth escorting INS Vikramaditya during transit through the Channel, on her way from Russia to India after procurement. 2013.

 

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HMS Hardy and HMS Phoebe. Blackwood class type 14 frigate HMS Hardy (F.54), filmed during the Royal Navy exercise that saw the frigate sunk as a target in July 1983.

 

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The Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) arrives at the NATO Marathi Pier Complex in Souda Bay, Greece,

 

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Zubr-class (pr. 12322) LCAC Kerkyra (L182) of the Hellenic Navy. It is the last Zubr built in Russia and the most advanced of its class.

 

 

 

 

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HMS Iwo Jima? When in 1982, Argentina invaded the Falklands. Revealed years later, Reagan had secretly prepared to give Thatcher the USS Iwo Jima if the Royal Navy needed it. The crew would have included U.S. “contract advisors” to operate the systems.

 

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