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According to this report, the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76) entered its area of operations on the 17th Sept.
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=91160
7th fleet area of operations is from the east of the international date line to the 68th meridian east?
http://www.c7f.navy.mil/about.htm
Nice big targets for ultra high speed missiles and silent subs.
this was a really good South Front report. calm and collected, with their own humor….thanks guys !
and additionally the 4th fleet been created or re-created back four yrs ago in order to match and threaten the brazilian-argentinian oil finds in the Atlantic. They are gigantic and south americans do have the funds -or access to funds – required to exploit them. Just to give it a faint idea the brazilian discoveries of its offshore oil took just seven years to begin production, in DEEP waters.
And further, the so called “success” rate of each maritime drill there is the highest by far in the world sea fields. Whis produces three different results, everyone knows: a-dramatically cuts down costs b-dramatically atracts overseas oilers greed, c- proves beyond any doubt that the state
oil company (Petrobras) if – contrary to the neoliberal ideas …- tremendously efficient.
Stop the empire hegemony plans!
Interesting.
That explains the trumpeting in the MSM press & the usual suspects I’ve noted in the internet alternative “news” sites with day-by-day blow accounts about the “implosion” of Brazil, the coming default by Petrobras of $90B in bonds, the villification of their president Rousseff, etc.
It’s been quite deafening these past 2 -3 months.
Gosh… for once, most of the US carrier groups are in or around their own home waters! Wouldn’t it be nice if they would just stay there.
According to the Russian Senator Igor Morozov, Beijing has taken decision to take part in combating IS and sent its vessels to the Syrian coast.
Igor Morozov, member of the Russian Federation Committee on International Affairs claimed about the beginning of the military operation by China against the IS terrorists. “It is known, that China has joined our military operation in Syria, the Chinese cruiser has already entered the Mediterranean, aircraft carrier follows it,” Morozov said.
http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/25-09-2015/132137-china-0/#sthash.ArLzDye1.dpuf
http://english.pravda.ru/news/russia/14-09-2015/131947-f_15_su_35-0/
US fighter aircraft F-15C Eagle may face serious competition with Russian fighter Sukhoi Su-35 (Flanker-E), US experts say.
According to The National Interest, the powerful F-15s has seen a number of modernizations during the recent years because of growing threats. Russia’s Su-35 fighter jet is not the most common potential threat for the F-15, but there is a chance for the number of the Russian aircraft to grow rapidly.
South Front is doing a useful work, but I can’t help notice the flood of articles reposted here is getting little attention. The reason is: this is monitoring, not alert watching. What I am looking for – and this is very much due to my limited time – are synthesis. I am here because The Saker is doing that so well. I understand it takes times and sometimes it’s not really justified but a weekly column about hot points – nowadays Ukrain, Yemen, Syria I would like. We already have the well put sitrep but that’s still too dry for me to read avidly like I do for everything written by the Saker.
Redford, that blows me away that you are not satisfied with South Front…I think they are the best at what you’re looking for…Saker posts them everyday..watch them every day and you’ll get what you’re looking for buddy.
A top U.S. admiral wants the powerful Third Fleet to expand its engagement in the Western Pacific region from its headquarters in San Diego by operating more closely with the Japan-based Seventh Fleet to focus on areas with the “greatest instability”.
In two recent speeches that received little media attention, U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Scott Swift questioned the need for an administrative boundary running along the international date line to demarcate operations for the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific and the Third Fleet to the east.
3rd fleet moving to Japan?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/27/us-japan-usa-navy-idUSKCN0RQ0SV20150927
In an early sign of a shift in strategy, U.S. naval officials said Third Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Nora Tyson rather than her Seventh Fleet counterpart would represent the U.S. Navy at the Japan Fleet Review on Oct. 18, a display of Japanese naval power held every three years.
“I would not be surprised to see more of Vice Admiral Tyson operating forward as part of this concept development process,” Swift said in a speech on Sept. 7 during a visit to the Seventh Fleet headquarters in Yokosuka, Japan.
Any change would not mean the relocation of headquarters or home ports, but would allow the two fleets to work together in “areas with the greatest instability”, Swift said, without elaborating.
tomorrow is an important day.the saker’s and our motto is to stop the empire’s war on Russia.
let us put all we are, our aspiration, prayers or whatever behind Putin so he may be inspired and deliver.( and protected from harm. It is of utmost importance for the world now and tomorrow.