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42. they are working on it - 'Navy Moves More Patrol Craft to 5th Fleet'

The U.S. Navy has sent two additional Cyclone-class patrol craft (PC) to U.S. 5th Fleet to increase U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf, U.S. Fleet Forces announced late Wednesday.

USS Hurricane (PC-3) and USS Monsoon (PC-4) left Naval Station Norfolk, Va. on Wednesday to join eight other PCs already stationed in Bahrain later this summer, a Fleet Forces spokesperson told USNI News on Thursday. The ten ships will operate as far afield as the Gulf of Oman.

“The primary mission of these ships is coastal patrol and interdiction surveillance, an important aspect of littoral operations outlined in the Navy’s maritime strategy,” according to the Wednesday statement from Fleet Forces.

In December, the Navy conducted a series of tests of the 33-pound missile, with a range of about 3.5 miles, onboard Monsoon.

http://news.usni.org/2014/07/10/navy-moves-patrol-craft-5th-fleet


LCS Defends Against Swarm Boats in Live Fire Tests



The U.S. Navy’s third Littoral Combat Ship fired its 57mm and 30mm guns against mock enemy targets while moving quickly through the water and coordinating with an MH-60R helicopter during its recent live-fire test of the surface warfare mission package aboard the USS Fort Worth, service officials said.

The live-fire exercise aboard LCS 3, which took place at Point Mugu Range, Calif., was designed to place the ship’s surface warfare weapons in a combat-like scenario in order to assess its ability to defend the ship from fast-moving small boats, said Capt. John Ailes, an official with Program Executive Office, Littoral Combat Ships.

“We demonstrated in day and night environments that the optical sights would slew to the target, hit the target, and destroy things despite the high speeds of maneuvering small boats. From a fire control standpoint, this showed that you have an end to end capability and can bring ordnance on targets,” Ailes told Military​.com in an interview.


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