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JUST IN: Boosting Global Security: AUKUS Partnership Strengthens Maintenance of Rotational Submarine Force Representatives from Australian and US Submarine Support organizations recently visited Faslane, Scotland, to enhance their understanding of maintaining nuclear-powered submarines. This collaboration aims to support global stability and strengthen the Advance Verification Team (AVT). The AVT's visit to Faslane follows a similar trip to Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard earlier this year, contributing to the establishment of an Australian-based facility capable of supporting maintenance activities for UK and US submarines. This partnership between Royal Navy, Australian Navy, and US Navy is committed to addressing shared threats and promoting stability in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. The AVT visit served as an opportunity to build trilateral relationships, enhance communication, and identify areas to develop maintenance capabilities in Australia. The AUKUS program, celebrating its two-year anniversary, has also seen a £4 billion investment to design and purchase critical components for the first UK submarines, reflecting a commitment to economic growth, job creation, and ensuring the safety and security of the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. #AUKUS #GlobalSecurity #SubmarineSupport #IndoPacificStability To learn more and read the complete story, click on this link. https://lnkd.in/gsjYRBby

The U.S. Navy is strengthening ties with Australia and the UK through the AUKUS partnership, despite pending congressional measures. This collaborative effort involves the sale of American submarines, integration of industrial bases, and innovative technology use. Notably, metal casting improvements are vital, and partnerships with UK and Australian vendors are being pursued. The initiative extends to training programs and workforce exchange to enhance submarine projects. 🌊🇺🇸🇦🇺🇬🇧 #NavyPartnership #AUKUS #SubmarineCollaboration ⚓ https://buff.ly/461t2Eq

Amphibious Futures: The Royal Marines in Contested New Operating Environments EABO illustrated within the New Approach section: “Strike-centric concepts that envision delivering convergent effects with distributed forces equipped with long-range fires. This is arguably a partial description of the primary focus of the US Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations framework, although the concept also embraces tasks such as supporting naval forces from offshore positions.” Here: https://lnkd.in/gU_jsb4Z

A recent renovation of the Ream Naval Base, located off the southern coast of Cambodia in the Gulf of Thailand, was a joint project between Cambodia and China that began in early 2023. According to CNN (https://lnkd.in/d2B_vvmx), Chinese warships first arrived at the base on December 3, 2023, for the purpose of training the Cambodian navy. #Defense and #intelligence analysts can leverage our constellation to collect multiple points of interest worldwide with weekly and daily revisits. Increased frequency enables analysts to track base modifications, military assets, and activity for timely intelligence. Explore our high-resolution, low-latency delivery tasking options: https://lnkd.in/eAET7Htn 

A Naval Intelligence Department (NID - Royal Navy) minute on MI6 woes of not having any positive collaboration in offshore intelligence collection, gathering, dissemination and analysis with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Although this is dated to just within a few months of the war starting in 1939, it says quite a bit about how much disarray Britain’s (and also the USA’s) foreign intelligence capabilities were in, after being gutted in the interwar years. It was even worse in 1939 Asia in general, but absolutely disastrous in Southeast Asia in particular, especially in the face of Japan’s superior intelligence activities up to and including, 8 December 1941 (Source: after TNA ADM 223/851).

Throwback Thursday- 📍 W-174 Range, Okinawa, Japan On August 18, 2020, U.S. Marines with 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, observed illumination rounds during a simulated close air support and assault support training event, which was coordinated with long range ground-based sensors. 5th ANGLICO operates across a range of complex maritime military operations to provide fires integration and support. Military operations within the first island chain are largely conducted in the littorals and maritime environment. 5th ANGLICO continues to train to tactical proficiency and readiness while conducting these types of operations throughout the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kealii De Los Santos) #ANGLICO #5thANGLICO #JASCO #ForwardDeployed #FightNow #FirstToFight #AlwaysReady #ReadyAndCapable #Lethality #StandInForce #SIF #EABO #ExpeditionaryAdvancedBaseOperations #MaritimeReconnaissance #AllDomain #Lethal #InsideTheWEZ #ThrowbackThursday #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific #KillWebs #KillChains #Unpredictable #HardToTarget #CredibleThreat #Shaping #LowSignature #CAS

Throwback Thursday- 📍 W-174 Range, Irusina Island, Okinawa, Japan On January 13, 2015, U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Craig Lewis, a communications chief with the 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, used two stacked devices, the Joint Terminal Attack Controller laser targeting device, and the PAS-25 (a thermal optic), to see at night. Marines effectively combine the devices' capabilities to mark targets at night with a laser for precision targeting. 5th ANGLICO continues to train and conduct operations alongside regional allies and partners within the adversary weapons engagement zone, performing fires, liaison, and combined arms capabilities while keeping pace with modern battlefield realities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Abbey Perria) #ANGLICO #5thANGLICO #JASCO #ForwardDeployed #FightNow #FirstToFight #AlwaysReady #ReadyAndCapable #Lethality #FireSupport #StandInForce #SIF #MaritimeReconnaissance #AllDomain #Lethal #InsideTheWEZ #ThrowbackThursday #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific #KillWebs #KillChains #Unpredictable #HardToTarget #CredibleThreat #Shaping #LowSignature #AllDomainManeuver #ContestedSpace #Integrator