USA began the largest integrated naval exercises since the Cold War of the Large Scale Exercise 2021 (LSE 2021). Interfax reports this with reference to US naval forces (Navy).
Teachings are held in order to show the possibilities of the United States to lead the war on several fronts and respond to the aggression of China and Russia, including in the Black Sea, in the Eastern Mediterranean, in the South China and East Chinese seas. According to the Navy, the event will cover 17 hour belts and will last until August 16.
According to the US military, these are the most large-scale exercises over the past 40 years. They involved more than 25 thousand servicemen and about 36 warships including aircraft carriers, rocket cruisers, destroyers, drum underwater boats and large landing ships, as well as deck and sea aviation.