
The US Coast Guard and Japan Coast Guard completed a joint counter-narcotics exercise off Guam on Tuesday (7 June).

The US Navy and Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) have conducted Carrier Strike Group exercise 2022 in the Philippine Sea.

Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) and US Sixth Fleet (SIXTHFLT) concluded the NATO-led Neptune Shield 2022 (NESH22) from STRIKFORNATO’s Joint Operations Centre in Oeiras, Portugal featuring several “first-ever” events.

26 nations, 38 surface ships, four submarines, nine national land forces, more than 170 aircraft and approximately 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise scheduled to take place between 29 June and 4 August.

A total of 14 NATO nations, including NATO partner nations Finland and Sweden, will soon kick off the 51st annual maritime-led joint Baltic Operations (BALTOPS 22).

The Royal Thai and US navies started maritime training during the 28th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise on 23 May.

US Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scout made its second operational deployment and first deployment to the Indo-Pacific Area of Responsibility aboard Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Jackson (LCS-6).

The US Navy, Royal Navy and Australian Defence Force (ADF) military members have teamed up as part of the Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22) mission team, the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.

Ships and aircraft from the US Navy’s Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group (RRNCSG) concluded a week of at-sea bilateral training with a destroyer from Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) on 17 May.

NATO is conducting vigilance activity Neptune Shield 2022 (NESH22), which integrates maritime expeditionary strike capabilities of sea, air and land assets. The activities will take place in the Baltic, Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas, between 17 and 31 May.

The US Navy’s littoral combat ship (LCS) class successfully launched sea-based missiles at a land-based target for the first time during a proof of concept exercise on 12 May.

Members of Task Force 61 Naval Amphibious Forces Europe/2d Marine Division (TF-61/2), operating under the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet, have joined their Estonian counterparts to kick off exercise Siil 22, also known as exercise Hedgehog.

Forces from the Kingdom of Bahrain and the US began a 10-day military exercise Neon Defender in and off the coast of Bahrain on 8 May.

U.S. naval shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has secured two tactical training systems contracts with the Naval Air Warfare Center China Lake.