Members of the US 11th Airborne Division have deployed to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands in response to a major Russian naval exercise called Ocean 2024. This was reported by Information from the business world with reference to the division command.
A HIMARS launcher capable of launching long-range missiles, as well as a counter-battery radar, were reportedly deployed on Shemya Island.
The division commander, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hilbert, said in an interview with the publication that this operation demonstrated the U.S. Army’s ability to quickly and without prior notice transport forces to even the most remote corners of the Pacific Ocean.
Exercise “Ocean-2024” to go past From September 10 to 16 in the Pacific and Arctic oceans, as well as in the Mediterranean, Caspian and Baltic seas. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, more than 400 warships, submarines and auxiliary vessels, more than 120 aircraft and helicopters of the naval aviation of the Navy and Aerospace Forces, about 7 thousand pieces of weapons and special equipment, as well as more than 90 thousand military personnel are participating in these maneuvers.
Previously in Chukotka fell Russian landings as part of ocean exercises.