US joint forces conduct coordinated multi-domain, multi-platform, long-range maritime strikes during a sinking exercise on the decommissioned guided-missile frigate ex-USS Ingraham.

The joint, live-fire exercise in which were involved members from Vinson Carrier Strike Group (VINCSG), Submarine Forces Pacific, 1 Marine Expeditionary Force/3rd Marine Air Wing, III Marine Expeditionary/3rd Marine Division, and U.S. Army Multi-Domain Task Force took place in the Hawaiian Islands Operating Area into the Pacific Ocean as part of Large Scale Exercise (LSE 21) on 15th August.

US Navy read in a statement: “During the sinking exercise, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) launched F/A-18E/F Super Hornets to test the Joint Standoff Weapon

” F-35C Joint Strike Fighters employed laser-guided weapons while P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft tested the Harpoon weapon system, and the fast-attack submarine USS Chicago (SSN 721) fired a UGM-84 anti-ship Harpoon missile and a MK 48 Advanced Capability torpedo.

“The U.S. Marine Corps launched Naval Strike Missiles from the Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, along with AGM-84 Harpoons from a division of F/A-18C Hornets. “

LSE 21 provided the opportunity to show technological innovations that are enabling advanced “kill-web” and emerging service warfighting concepts such as Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations, and capabilities that allow the joint force to accelerate the speed and precision of delivering complex, simultaneous, multi-domain, multi-platform anti-surface warfare fires when and where desired.