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World Warships….

NORTH ARABIAN SEA (November 17, 2020) – Warships from the Royal Australian Navy,Indian Navy,United States Navyand Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force sail in formation during an allied training exercise.

The training exercise was called Malabar 2020.…an annual event since 2002. Here’s more of the group….as we zoom-out from the top photo. (If you look closely, you’ll see the tip of a submarine’s conning tower poking above the water, and leaving a wake, to the far left of the third photo above.)

Over a dozens ships, a submarine, multiple aircraft, and other naval assets from the four allied navies participated in the two-week-long event.

This alliance of Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean powers projects a unified maritime encirclement of China as the Communist regime continues its aggressive, and sometimes hostile, encroachment on vast regions of the Indian OceanandWestern Pacific Ocean.

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Serving as lead ships for the four participating navies (top photo….from top to bottom) and the insignia for each naval force working together in Malabar 2020:

>>Australia….HMASBallarat (FFH 155)–frigate

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>>India….INSVikramaditya–aircraft carrier; Indian Navy flagship

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>>United States….USSNimitz (CVN 68) – nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

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>>Japan….JSMurasame (DD 101)–destroyer

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>>CLICK on the photos for a closer look at this impressive naval force….

>>Top photo: Mass Communication Specialist3rd Class Keenan Daniels, USN; photos #2 & 3: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Elliot Schaud, USN

To far horizons….

        ….with good friends….

                  ….to prevent a war….

SOUTH CHINA SEA (October 20, 2020) – United States NavyArleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyerUSSJohn S. McCain (DDG 56) sails in formation with JSKirisame (DD 104) of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force(at the middle of the formation), and HMASArunta (FFH 151) of the Royal Australian Navy(out in front)….

….while conducting multi-national integrated maritime security operations in this increasingly volatile region (<<CLICK for the sordid details.)….

                                      The Asian “hemisphere”

(Basically, they are training as allies to put up an increasingly united hemispheric front against Communist Chineseaggression,territorial seizure and subsequent militarization….posing a serious threat (existentialto hundreds of millions of people in a dozen large nations) to one of the world’s foremost ocean trade routes – over $3 Trillion dollars-worth each year.)

Friends, warriors, professionals….with a serious diplomatic and military mission….

                                Australia: HMAS Arunta (FFH 151)

                                      Japan: JS Kirisame (DD 104)

                       United States: USS John S. McCain (DDG 56)

The South China Sea….ancient cultures, vast populations, crowded waters….and, now, increasingly dangerous tension….

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>>Top photo: Mass Communication Specialist2nd Class Markus Castaneda, USN