U.S. Navy Patrol Squadron TEN (VP-10) efficiently carried out a coordinated missile launch with Patrol Squadron FOUR (VP-4) utilizing two Air to Floor Missile (AGM-84) Harpoons towards a decommissioned Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60), throughout Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Petty Officer third Class Diego Alva labored with different Aviation Ordnancemen (AO) from VP-10 and VP-4 to make sure that the Harpoons had been safely loaded onto the plane. Members of the upkeep groups correctly serviced the plane whereas flight crews from each squadrons labored as one staff to make sure correct coordination of the flights, mission timeline and missile launch.
Patrol Squadron 10 (VP-10) is a United States Navy Patrol Squadron primarily based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It’s nicknamed the “Purple Lancers” and is provided with the Boeing P-8A Poseidon. It’s the third squadron to be designated VP-10. The primary VP-10 was redesignated VP-2D15 on 21 September 1927 and the second VP-10 was redesignated VP-25 on 1 July 1939. The squadron is getting ready to conduct maritime patrol and reconnaissance in addition to theatre outreach operations inside U.S. Seventh Fleet space of operations.
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The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile developed and manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Protection, House & Safety). The missile will be launched from: Fastened-wing plane (the AGM-84, with out the solid-fuel rocket booster); Floor ships (the RGM-84, fitted with a solid-fuel rocket booster that detaches when expended, to permit the missile’s most important turbojet to take care of flight); Submarines (the UGM-84, fitted with a solid-fuel rocket booster and encapsulated in a container to allow submerged launch by way of a torpedo tube);
Coastal protection batteries, from which it might be fired with a solid-fuel rocket booster.
RIMPAC is the world’s largest worldwide maritime train, together with 26 nations, 38 ships, 4 submarines, greater than 170 plane and 25,000 personnel. Operating from June 29 to August 4 in and across the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California, it offers a novel coaching alternative whereas fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships amongst contributors vital to making sure the security of sea lanes and safety on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the twenty eighth train within the sequence that started in 1971.
