US Carrier Group off Korea
 

US displays military might near Korea - BBC News

some nice footage

One hopes that the megalomaniac dictator won't do anything stupid after one of his daft petulant tantrumps.

It is to be hoped that the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and supreme leader of North Korea won't react to this provocation either.

Hopefully there is somebody awake on the bridge amongst that lot...

It's OK.

The opposition is short and fat. Not much vertical footage

Not a dotard.

Nothing for the bridge crew to look out for.

Well, looking at the crew, I'm not sure they are from the same side as me.

Truely, it had been some time those pictures had not been broadcasted around. It usually happens every 5-6 years - always the same footage, basically.
Reminds me of the Fall of Saigon, by the way. Let's wait and see.

Anyway, I'm not for one side in particular, being from the other part of the world. Just would enjoy one side getting a bloody nose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHLKFSWzImk

Buggah!

Buggah Buggah Buggah!

When are you lads going to get real ships like those?

at the Greek Calends...................

What's the little carrier in the middle?

Possibly the JS Ise, a 13,950-ton Hyūga-class helicopter "destroyer"

Why am I minded of this from u-tube?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePi4dieDS8Y

With that much combined power they can move the lighthouse, permanently.

It’s an Irish lighthouse now, used to be French.

It was funny when people actually believed the story.

From the deck markings, looks like you are right. I'd wondered if it wa sone of the Korean Dokdo class LPHs, although they are assauly ships rather than the AS role the Japanee carrier, sorry, destroyer has!

No, the Koreans refused to take part at the same time as the Japanese. They did a similar joint sailing separately with the US, and when asked why no US/J/K they said it was to mollify the Chinese at a time of delicate negotiations.

Get real.

Try it the other way round.

Trump despite his undoubted failings does not come close to the little fat psychopathic NK ‘God’ for unmitigated evil.

N Korea is a failed state that complies with no universally accepted norms of acceptable behaviour, and presents a very real and present danger to world stability at the present time.

In spite of all the above mirth merriment and general jokes it should perhaps also be realised that with 7 carrier strike groups presently deployed the USN has at sea more ships and power than many country's Navies combined.

They also have about a century of carrier operations under their belt, and, at the present time just happen to be keeping the UK’s seedcorn carrier personnel trained and with the ability to man QE and the Prince of Wales in due course.

Last time I looked Brat the USN was bigger than the next 10 navies combined...................

What's going to be interesting is what happens in 6 months or so time when all those carriers will be at the end of their deployment cycle with only 3 to replace them.

What makes you think there won’t be anything to replace them? Normal cruises have been greatly extended in times of need.

Who knows how long they'll be deployed together off Korea? Even if it's for an extended period, the carriers can be relieved one at time within the normal rotation cycle of the carriers. And if things get hot, the deployment periods for one or more carriers can be extended as needed. That's what happened in both Gulf War 1 and 2.