What is an Amphibious Ready Group (ARG)?

I'll break it down in this 🧵

1/n An ARG is an amphibious force consisting of a Naval element, a group of ships known as an amphibious task force (ATF), and a landing force (LF) of US Marines, often a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) totaling about 5,000 people.

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What is a Carrier Strike Group and what capabilities does it bring to the fight?

This one will take a bit to unroll, but here's a 🧵

1/n A carrier strike group consists of an aircraft carrier (CVN) as the flag ship, one guided missile cruiser (CG), 2 or more guided missile destroyers (DDGs) and sometimes 2 or more support vessels and at least 1 fast attack submarine totaling around 7,500 personnel.

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Naval Station Mayport - DoD fire, Jax Fire Rescue, and Navy firefighting personnel are battling a fire on the USS Milwaukee. Major fire has been declared. Possibility of 4 sailors trapped. Fire reported to be out at this time. Crews working on overhaul and extinguishing hotspots. Sounds like the 4 sailors that were trapped have been rescued.

#MonkeyWerx seems to think that the RC-135s can only do one mission, interception of wireless communications or Signals Intelligence (SIGINT).

This is a thread on the in service variants of the RC-135.

1/n All RC-135 variants, 14 of them, are all based on the same C-135 aircraft.

The C-135 is a medium weight reconnaissance aircraft built by Boeing. It's unrefueled range is 3,900 miles, but it is capable of air to air refueling.

This thread focuses on the variants in service.
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Nearly 60 US Army helos are up at 0115z.

47 - #H60 Blackhawks
12 - #H72 Lakotas

#USArmy #AvGeek Forgot to add the 8 #H47's to the list.

P-8A Poseidon 🧵
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The P-8A Poseidon is a multi mission maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft. It efficiently conducts anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and humanitarian response. 2/
The P-8A is the direct replacement to the P-3 Orion. It is a militarized version of Boeing's 737-800 with 900 series wings. It has a range of 1,200nmi with 4 hours on station. It has a crewed by 9 sailors. It has several work multi function work stations for additional crew.

Boeing E-4B Nightwatch in a 🧵

The Boeing E-4B is a militarized version of Boeing's 747. It is designated the National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC) and is designed to board the National Command Authority (NCA) in the event of a nuclear strike.
1/ First deployed in January 1980, the E-4B is also known as the doomsday plane. It accommodates a crew of up to 112 and has an endurance of 12 hours unrefueled and a range of 6,200 miles. It is capapble of air/air refueling. The aircraft can stay aloft for up to 7 days with AAR
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1/ The E-6B Mercury thread
"The E-6B communications relay and strategic airborne command post aircraft. Provides survivable, reliable, and endurable airborne command, control, and communications between the National Command Authority and U.S. strategic and non-strategic forces." 2/ The E-6B is a modified Boeing 707 aicraft that has two missions: Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) and Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS). It's capable of air to air refueling and has an endurance of 15 hours.