Ship
& Group Locations Checked & Updated (September 16 to 22)
- IMCMEX 2012: (Sept 16-22) Large Mine-Countermeasures exercise in Arabian Gulf (Royal Navy ) (US Navy )
- UNITAS Atlantic 53-2012: (Sept 17) Multinational naval exercise in Caribbean (US Navy )
- COUGAR 2012: (Sept to Nov) Major Naval / Marine Exercise with France in Mediterranean and Adriatic, Includes HMS Illustrious, Bulwark, Northumberland, Montrose, 3 Commando HQ, 45 Commando and FS Charles De Gaulle carrier strike group (MOD )
FS
Charles De Gaulle (CVN)
- (Sept 18) in Mediterranean conducting pilot training, planning to return to port for short period, then conduct PEAN 12.2 training with the full CSG ...adjust schedule (Defense Ministry )
- (Sept 21) will participate in COUGAR 2012 with HMS Illustrious Battlegroup
HMS
Dauntless (DDG)
- (Sept 18) Visiting Cartegena, Columbia (Royal Navy )
HMS
Illustrious (CV)
- (Sept 21) Currently off UK coast, Flagship for COUGAR 2012, will be conducting an amphibious exercise off the Cornish coast, then head to Mediterranean
HMS
Sutherland (FFG)
- (9/20) conducted air defense gunnery training with French Mirages based out of Djibouti
HMS
Ocean (LHA)
- (Sept 17) arrives at Plymouth, UK; preparing for a 1-year refit at Babcock Marine, then will relieve HMS Illustrious (Royal Navy )
INS
Vikramaditya (CV)
- (Sept 17) Malfunctions delay handover of carrier to Indian Navy until October, 2013 (RIA Novosti )
- (Sept 18) Malfunctions during Sea trials were due to faulty boilers (Yahoo News India )
RFS
Peter Veliky (BCGN)
- (Sept 20) Currently on a patrol and training mission in the Arctic, conducted missile defense drills, ship is testing capabilities for ballistic missile defense systems. Russia plans to reactivate three mothballed Kirov class cruisers as part of sea-based missile defense by 2020 (RIA Novosti )
USS
Eisenhower CSG (CVN-69)
- (Sept 17) USS WS Churchill (DDG-81) conducts anti-piracy exercises with Chinese FFG Yi Yang (US Navy )
USS
G. Washington CSG (CVN-73)
- (Sept 21) arrive at Guam, VE 2012 done
USS
Peleliu ARG (LHA-5)
- (Sept 17) DEPLOY to WESTPAC / CENTCOM (US Navy )
USS
Swift (HSV-2)
- (Sept 19) leaves Lome, Togo
USS
Truman (CVN-75)
- (Sept 20) begin TSTA, preparing for upcoming underway period and deployment
USS
Vandergrift (FFG-48)
- (Sept 20) arrives at Vladivostok, Russia
GROUND
UNITS LOGS & EXERCISES:
US
Ground units logs updated per DOD reports, up to (September 16 to 22)
(DOD News Releases )
France,
UK, Russia, China Army logs updated per various news releases and
open sources
- KAVKAZ-2012: (September 17-23), upcoming Russian Army Ex in Caucasus (RIA Novosti ); Coastal defense exercise video (RIA Novosti )
- Chistoye Nebo 2012: (October 5-16) Air Defense Exercise in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan; involves interception of cruise missiles (RIA Novosti )
CHINA
- (Sept 18) PLA forces have conducted a series of amphibious assault exercises in Nanjing Military Command Area (East China Sea); more than 10,000 troops and 1,000 armored vehicles participated in the 20-day live-fire exercise in August (Yahoo News India ) (Rediff News )
RUSSIA
- (Sept 19) Russian forces kill 5-militants in Ingushetia (Kyiv Post )
UK
- 21 Engineer Regiment – KIA @ FOB Shawqat, Helmand Province, Afghanistan (Sept 21)
USA
- 2nd Infantry Division, 3rd Stryker Brigade – KIA @ Zabul Province, Afghanistan (Sept 16)
- 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Heavy Brigade – KIA @ Panjwai, Afghanistan (Sept 20)
NEWS
that makes me go Hmmmm......
CHINA
- (Sept 17) Panetta warns that the simmering dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands runs the risk of breaking out into war (CNS News )
IRAN
- (Sept 17) Iran says on August 17 explosives cut power from Qom to the Fordo nuclear complex (My FOX DC )
ISRAEL
- (Sept 19) Large IDF live-fire exercise in Golan heights similates war on northern border (Debka )
LIBYA
- (Sept 22) Libyan protesters, followed up by the Army, sweep islamist militia linked to the slaying of ambasador Stevens from the base in Benghazi (Yahoo News )
MALI
- (Sept 18) Mali and ECOWAS in talks for joint military operation to oust islamist rebels from N. Mali (Yahoo News ) (Voice Of America ) (Yahoo News UK )
- (Sept 21) US Security Council is considering ECOWAS and Mali interim government proposals for support to oust the islamist rebels, possibly including an ECOWAS HQ in Bamako, 5-battalions and air support (Yahoo News )
SOMALIA
- (Sept 18) Al-Shabab islamist fighters are seen fleeing Kismayo and traveling to Jilib, about 80 miles NE up the coast ...map updated (Yahoo News )
SUDAN
- (Sept 16) US pulls diplomats out of country
SYRIA
- (Sept 17) Syrian jets bomb fleeing rebels near Arsal, Lebanon; the Army shells rebel positions in Aleppo and Hajar Aswad neighborhood of Damascus; the UN confirms foreign-elements fighting for the rebels are radicalizing the rebels and spinning things out of control (WSJ )
- (Sept 19) Syrian rebels seize their 3rd border crossing with Turkey at Tel Abyad; Rebels begin pullout from southern Damascus neighborhoods after withering artillery barrages for days (Yahoo News )
- (Sept 20) Sources say Iranian Al Qods Brigades units were active in Syria and Lebanon, as well as Hezbollah units (Debka )
- (Sept 22) Rebels down a Syrian fighter jet over Atarib (Yahoo News )
TUNISIA
- (Sept 16) US pulls diplomats out of country
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