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USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Bunker Hill, USS John Finn, JS Asahi, and JS Kongo conducted joint-training on January 15th in the waters around Okinawa. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202101/20210116.pdf https://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/2474607/theodore-roosevelt-carrier-strike-group-conducts-bilateral-exercise-with-japan/ USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Bunker Hill, JS Hatakaze, JS Setoyuki, and JS Yugiri conducted joint-training on February 28th in the Pacific. https://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/2522134/theodore-roosevelt-carrier-st

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Yep, I'm a dark theme user.

It might be related to the new forums format such as this: https://www.tanknet.org/index.php?/topic/44784-i-love-the-new-format/&do=findComment&comment=1505621 Ryan might be copy/pasting without clicking on the "paste as plain text" option that comes up at the bottom of the text space after pasting something.

Haven't been there myself but from others that I've heard from that have, they seem serious in developing their economy.

Another Singapore based ASEAN survey for the year 2021: https://www.iseas.edu.sg/frontpage-publications/the-state-of-southeast-asia-2021-survey-report-2/ Previous two surveys: 2020 https://www.tanknet.org/index.php?/topic/34256-hypothetical-war-contest-for-the-spratleys/&do=findComment&comment=1464385 2019 https://www.tanknet.org/index.php?/topic/34256-hypothetical-war-contest-for-the-spratleys/&do=findComment&comment=1407937

Got a fiscal year's worth of B-1 visits to the airspace around/over Okinawa, East China Sea, Sea of Japan, etc. for joint-training with F-15Js and F-2s. 2020 April 22nd, one B-1, four F-16s (USAF), eight F-15Js and seven F-2s https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/news/houdou/R2/20200423.pdf May 12th, two B-1s, eight F-15Js, and eight F-2s https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/news/houdou/R2/20200512.pdf May 27th, two B-1s, eight F-15Js, and eight F-2s https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/news/houdou/R2/20200527.pdf July 17th, two B-1s, twelve F-15Js, and four F-2s https://www.mod.go.jp/asdf/news/houd

I don't disagree with thesentiment but a little caution to the use of the bomber fleet is that high tempo use can wear down parts and put strain on maintenace crew and schedule. In 2017, the tempo of B-1 bomber use for show of force and to DPRK and training in the vincinity of DPRK did take a toll on the B-1 fleet's readiness afterwards. What will become something for consideration is that yhe PRC is producing new H-6 bombers and has been for while. So the service life for those new ones should be long while B-1s get used much. B-52s seem to have an effective sort of life extension with what I

Oh great, should be good

Ah well too bad. probably the data transfer rate of full video would be too much between the mini heli and rover.

Nice. Wonder if there will be some more high frame rate video footage from the onboard helicopter. That'll be really neat.