A group of large ships advances in the Philippine Sea between Taiwan and Guam.
The US Navy’s amphibious assault ship Tripoli, equipped with 20 F-35 stealth fighters, stood in the center, and aircraft carriers Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan were placed on the left and right.
Only these three ships are loaded with more than 160 state-of-the-art fighters and reconnaissance aircraft that surpass any country’s air power.
Behind the carrier are the cruiser Mobile Bay and the destroyers Spruance and Fitzgerald, five of the US Navy’s flagship ships.
It is a joint maritime exercise of the Navy and Marines among the biennial U.S. military alone ‘Brave Shield’, scheduled until the 17th.
In the Brave Shield exercise, 13,000 troops of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Forces also participate in the B-1B Lancer Four strategic bombers deployed to Guam.
[신종우/한국국방안보포럼 책임분석관 : 북한이 핵실험을 감행한다면 확장억제 차원에서 훈련에 참가한 전략자산들이 한반도 인근으로 이동해 훈련을 할 수도 있습니다.]
The exercise, which was normally held in September, was suddenly moved up by three months, and the armed demonstrations of three carrier-class ships were also revealed, thereby putting intense pressure on North Korea to conduct a nuclear test.
This is SBS Kim Tae-Hoon.
(Video coverage: Han Il-sang / Editing: Park Chun-bae / Production: D Content Planning Department)