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Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln Now in the South China Sea, Russian Surface Action Group Also Underway
Dzirhan MahadzirNovember 28, 2024 12:14 PM
Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) departed the Port Klang Cruise Terminal in Malaysia on Wednesday, according to the Royal Malaysian Navy.
The carrier is now sailing down the Malacca Strait heading to the South China Sea. In other developments a Russian surface action group and a Russian submarine are back again in the South China Sea after completing port visits to Thailand and Malaysia while Japanese forces have tracked several People’s Liberation Army Navy ships sailing near Japan.
Lincoln had docked in on Saturday for a four day liberty call following operations in the Central Command area. The carrier’s visit was the first since the arrest of Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis in 2013, who previously owned the cruise terminal.
Also departing from the cruise terminal on Wednesday was Japan Maritime Self Defense Force destroyer JS Samidare (DD-106) which had docked in on Sunday following drills with the RMN. The destroyer is on a homeward voyage after completing an anti-piracy deployment in the Gulf of Aden.
Abraham Lincoln is now in the South China Sea after linking up in the Singapore Strait with its escorts. USS Spruance (DDG-111) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), docked in Phuket, Thailand while USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) docked into Sembawang, Singapore with all three destroyers wrapping up their port visits on Wednesday according to a U.S. Navy release. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike is four and half months into its deployment.
On Tuesday, U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft conducted a Taiwan Strait transit, according to a 7th Fleet release. stated that transited the Taiwan Strait in international airspace on that day. Tuesday’s transit was the third P-8A transit carried out this year with earlier transits on Apr.17 and Sept. 17.