(Amerika) United States Navy

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Neue US-Navy-Task-Group zur Suche nach russischen U-Schiffen. Benannt hat man die Group allerdings etwas melodramatisch nach dem Film "Greyhound" von 2020 mit Tom Hanks, der eine Geleitmission im Zweiten Weltkrieg und damit verbundene Attacken deutscher U-Boote zum Inhalt hat. (Der Film ist übrigens nicht schlecht und auch sehenswert - ich mag allerdings die Filme von Hanks -, aber eben etwas melodramatisch.)

Navy Creates New Atlantic Destroyer Task Group to Hunt Russian Submarines

The Navy has created a new task group on the East Coast to ensure it has ready destroyers that can deploy on short notice to counter the Russian submarine threat in the Atlantic Ocean. Task Group Greyhound – which officially declared initial operational capability on Sept. 1 – is a force-generation model for destroyers that is embedded within the Navy’s Optimized Fleet Response Plan. [...]

Greyhound is “designed to provide the fleet with predictable, continuously ready and fully certified warships,” Rear Adm. Brendan McLane, the commander of Naval Surface Force Atlantic, said in a Monday ceremony aboard USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) in Mayport, Fla. “The ships will be ready to accomplish the full range of missions – including tracking Russian undersea activity in the Atlantic and maritime homeland defense for our nation.” [...]

USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) – which recently completed several years forward-deployed in Rota, Spain and is now based in Mayport – and Thomas Hudner are the first destroyers to become part of the task group. USS The Sullivans (DDG-68), which is currently deployed with the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group, will join the task group in January when it returns. USS Cole (DDG-67) and USS Gravely (DDG-107) will become part of Greyhound next year when Donald Cook begins its maintenance period. [...] The ships will be based out of Mayport and Norfolk, Va., and the task group is set for full operational capability by June 2022, according to McLane, who noted the ships will still have a post-deployment stand-down so sailors can see family after being out at sea.

https://news.usni.org/2021/09/27/navy-cr...submarines

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