CORAL SEA (July 8, 2017) Landing craft air cushion (LCAC) 21, assigned to Naval Beach Unit (NBU) 7, departs the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) during Talisman Saber 17. Bonhomme Richard, part of a combined Zealand expeditionary strike group, is undergoing a series of scenarios that will increase naval proficiencies in operating against blue-water adversarial threats and in its primary mission of launching Marine forces ashore in the littorals. Talisman Saber is a biennial bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia


CORAL SEA (July 8, 2017) Landing craft air cushion (LCAC) 21, assigned to Naval Beach Unit (NBU) 7, departs the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) during Talisman Saber 17. Bonhomme Richard, part of a combined Zealand expeditionary strike group, is undergoing a series of scenarios that will increase naval proficiencies in operating against blue-water adversarial threats and in its primary mission of launching Marine forces ashore in the littorals. Talisman Saber is a biennial bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the alliance.


Size: 1733px × 1154px
Photo credit: © Bob Collet / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: #talismansaber, -aus, 6, 7, 67, 69, 2017, 6th, air, aircraft, america, amphibious, archive, arg, armed, army, assault, av-8b, bhr, blacksheep, boatswain, bonhomme, carrier, cg, coral, cvn, cvn77, deck, defence, deployment, eisenhower, esg, expeditionary, fleet, flight, force, forces, ghwb, gospel, group, ill, japan, lhd, lhd6, matthew, military, minsitries, navy, ofrp, ordnance, pacific, perry, preach, ras, ready, religious, replenishment, reportage, richard, saber, sailors, sasebo, sea, service, serviceman, servicemen, shiloh, ship, soldier, south, states, strike, talisman, ts17, underway, united, unrep, usa, usn, usns, uss