The Carl Vinson Provider Strike Group is again within the South China Sea following a port go to to Port Klang, Malaysia. In the meantime, the French Provider Strike Group is now working within the Indian Ocean, USNI Information has discovered.
On Friday, the Pentagon launched imagery of USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) working within the South China Sea. The strike group consists of the embarked Provider Air Wing (CVW) 2, cruiser USS Princeton (CG-59) and destroyers USS Sterett (DDG-104) and USS William P. Lawrence (DDG-110), which had beforehand been working within the South China Sea earlier than crusing up the Strait of Malacca for a scheduled port go to at Port Klang, Malaysia on Sunday and departed on Thursday.
The Carl Vinson Provider Strike Group departed San Diego on Nov. 18 and is now simply previous the six-week mark on deployment and prone to stay on station round South-East and North East Asia given it’s presently the one deployed U.S. service within the area with ahead deployed service USS George Washington (CVN-73) nonetheless in port at Yokosuka.
The Folks’s Liberation Military Navy’s two operational carriers CNS Liaoning (16) and CNS Shandong (17) are presently in port, with China Army On-line, the official portal of the Folks’s Liberation Military reporting that Shandong lately accomplished its final maritime coaching mission in 2024 and returned to port. The report additionally acknowledged that Shandong is ‘now able to conducting fight missions beneath all-weather and complicated meteorological circumstances.’
On Thursday, the French CSG posted on its social media account on X, that it was now working within the Indian Ocean.
“The French CSG is now crusing within the Indian Ocean! Its presence on this strategic zone demonstrates France’s dedication to a free, open and steady Indo-Pacific area alongside our companions,” reads the submit.
#CLEMENCEAU25
The #French_CSG is now crusing within the Indian Ocean !
Its presence on this strategic zone demonstrates’s dedication to a free, open and steady Indo-Pacific area alongside our companions.
— French Provider Strike Group (@French_CSG) January 1, 2025
’s dedication to a free, open and steady Indo-Pacific area alongside our companions. The French CSG had transited the Suez Canal on Dec. 23 and comprised of service FS Charles De Gaulle (R91), frigate FS Forbin (D620), two FREMM class frigates, fleet oiler FS Jacques Chevallier (A725) and a nuclear-powered assault submarine. The French CSG deployed on Nov. 28, with the deployment referred to as CLEMENCEAU 25 and taking the CSG to the Indo-Pacifc.
Previous to coming into the Suez Canal, was working within the Mediterranean with U.S. Navy destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117), Italian Navy frigate ITS Virginio Fasan (F591), Hellenic Navy frigate HS Kountouriotis (F462) and Royal Moroccan Navy frigate RMNS Mohammed VI (701) built-in into the CSG as its escort.
The CSG handed by way of the Crimson Sea with out conducting any operations towards Houthi forces and is now headed to India to make stopovers in at Goa and Kochi from Friday onwards, in response to a French Embassy in India launch and subsequently perform the France-India bilateral naval train Varuna 2025, “Throughout Mission CLEMENCEAU 25, the Charles de Gaulle CSG and Indian navy ships will participate within the forty second annual Varuna bilateral train. This aero-naval coaching goals to develop interoperability between our two navies, and to arrange crews to cope with a multi-milieu menace (air, floor, submarine) as a part of a coalition,” reads the discharge.
