{"id":32083,"date":"2023-10-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=32083"},"modified":"2023-10-16T09:07:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T07:07:57","slug":"aircraft-carrier-group-eisenhower-on-the-way-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/flugzeugtraeger-gruppe-eisenhower-auf-dem-weg-nach-europa\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft carrier group \"Eisenhower\" on its way to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the new super aircraft carrier \"Gerald R. Ford\" was deployed somewhat hastily to the warlike scenario in the eastern Mediterranean a week ago on its very first trip abroad, which only began in May, a transfer to European waters had long been planned for the aircraft carrier \"Dwight D. Eisenhower\" and its associated strike group. And yet: with the second carrier group heading for Europe, the USA is once again sending a signal to the states surrounding Israel not to start an additional dispute in support of Hamas and Hezbollah troops. \"DON'T\" - as the US Secretary of State has just said in the shortest possible form.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"George H.W. Bush\" Carrier Strike Group. Photo: U.S. Navy\/J.Wolpert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to the Air Wing 3 embarked on the carrier, the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (CSG) consists of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers DDG 107 \"Gravely\" and DDG 87 \"Mason\" (155 metres, 9,000 tonnes) and the Ticonderoga-class cruiser CG 58 \"Philippine Sea\" (173 metres, 10,000 tonnes). That's a total of over 5,000 servicemen and women - plus the 5,800 crew members of the \"Ike\". The unit is now following a closely timed bilateral and alliance-related catalogue of visits and exercises in the waters of the U.S. European Command's area of command (Stuttgart - U.S. Seventh Army; Sixth U.S. Fleet; Third U.S. Air Force), but how long this planning will last and how long their stay will be is currently up in the air. With currently two active war scenarios on the fringes of Europe, the presence of two carrier groups certainly provides more operational freedom. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Aircraft carrier USS \"Dwight D. Eisenhower\" (CVN 69) (Ike) in the Suez Canal. Photo: U.S. Navy\/ C.A.Michaels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the U.S. Central Command (Tampa\/Florida), the Ford CSG consists of eight squadrons of attack and support aircraft, the destroyers DDG 116 \"Thomas Hudner\" and DDG 61 \"Ramage\", DDG 64 \"Carney\" and DDG 80 \"Roosevelt\", as well as the cruiser CG 60 \"Normandy\". It is also supported by the F-15, F-16 and A-10 fighter aircraft of the U.S. Air Force stationed in Europe.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Ronald Reagan\" Carrier Strike Group in the Indian Ocean. Photo: U.S. Navy\/S.Call<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The \"Eisenhower\" was last in European waters in 2021 and supported Operation Inherent Resolve against the Islamic State with its air combat assets and also provided airspace security during the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. In 2022, it underwent a refit period and is now certified seaworthy and fully operational again following a deployment training phase. Something you have to be able to rely on - in these times! And what are we hearing from NATO and the EU on this subject? More on this when official announcements are available.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

W\u00e4hrend der neue Super-Flugzeugtr\u00e4ger \"Gerald R. Ford\" auf seiner erst im Mai begonnenen allerersten Auslandsfahrt vor einer Woche bereits etwas \u00fcberst\u00fcrzt in das kriegerische Szenario im \u00f6stlichen Mittelmeer entsandt wurde, war f\u00fcr den Flugzeugtr\u00e4ger \"Dwight D. Eisenhower\" mit der zugeh\u00f6renden Strike Group (Tr\u00e4gergruppe) eine Verlegung in europ\u00e4ische Gew\u00e4sser schon lange geplant. Und trotzdem: mit der […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"3high","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,486,42,50],"tags":[1207,1011,6166,135,112,3775,997,340,2505,2536,6168,6167,936],"class_list":["post-32083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","tag-arleigh-burke","tag-carrier-strike-group","tag-dwight-d-eisenhower","tag-eu","tag-flugzeugtraeger","tag-gerald-r-ford","tag-kreuzer","tag-nato","tag-ticonderoga","tag-traegergruppe","tag-uscentcom","tag-useucom","tag-zerstoerer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}