Carrier battle group
Under an aircraft carrier battle group is defined as a multi-functional naval force, consisting of an aircraft carrier and escort ships.
Purpose and need
Carrier battle groups have a wide range of applications. These include securing the civilian or military shipping against enemy attacks at sea or from the air and perform or backup amphibious or other military operations. The deployment of such a battle group from a hostile coast is already in the form of power presentation in the region concerned as a pressure medium. In addition, they also serve as a base of operations for monitoring fly zones, warfare combat aircraft and cruise missiles, as well as the embargo surveillance and reconnaissance. As an example of the deployment of aircraft carrier groups in the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War, for the monitoring of sea area embargo and no-fly zone and the attack on Iraq would be mentioned.
The merger of several types of ships to a battle group evolved from the need to protect the strategically extremely important, but essentially unarmed aircraft carrier at sea from enemy attacks or Abdrängversuchen. This is partly a fact that aircraft carriers except their planes have mostly little offensive power against attacks. For combat aircraft and submarines they are because of their size also an easy target. Therefore, aircraft carriers are always in a battle group, which also serves to protect and care used. This principle is found in the majority of the Marines had the carrier in use or have.
Carrier Strike Group of U.S. Navy
A Carrier Strike Group ( CSG short ) refers to a battle group led by an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
Composition
CSG of the U.S. Navy usually consist of the following types of ships:
- An aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class, each with a Carrier Air Wing
- Two guided missile cruisers of the Ticonderoga class, which are equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles, used for long-distance and other attacks
- Two to three guided missile destroyers of the Arleigh Burke-class, who are mainly responsible for air and anti-submarine
- A frigate of the Oliver Hazard Perry - class anti-submarine defense
- Two hunting submarines of Los Angeles, Seawolf or Virginia class to combat enemy submarines and surface ships
Assignment of the CSG to the aircraft carriers
In January 2009, the following assignments were:
Atlantic Fleet:
- CSG 2 - CVN 71 Theodore Roosevelt
- CSG 6 - no assignment
- CSG 8 - CVN 69 Dwight D. Eisenhower
- CSG 10 - CVN 75 Harry S. Truman
- CSG 12 - CVN 65 Enterprise
Pacific Fleet:
- CSG 3 - CVN 74 John C. Stennis
- CSG 5 - CVN 73 George Washington
- CSG 7 - CVN 76 Ronald Reagan
- CSG 9 - CVN 72 Abraham Lincoln
- CSG 11 - CVN 68 Nimitz
Amphibious Ready Group of the U.S. Navy
The Amphibious Ready Group, or ARG is a battle group of the U.S. Navy, which can carry out amphibious landings. It owns an amphibious assault ship of Tarawa, Wasp or future America - class dock landing ship and either the Whidbey Iceland or Harpers Ferry Class Amphibious Transport Dock and the Austin or San Antonio class. This transport about a Marine Expeditionary Unit with materials.
Between 2003 and 2009 installed also amphibious groups as an integral association with several escorts as Expeditionary Strike Group.
Russian aircraft carrier battle group
Russia has with the Admiral Kuznetsov also on an aircraft carrier with conventional fighter aircraft. The Admiral Kuznetsov is accompanied similar to the American aircraft carriers by an association of ships.
The escort group of Kuznetsov consists of a rule:
- The aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov from the Admiral Kuznetsov was named after her class
- A missile cruiser Slava - class
- Two missile destroyers Sovremenny class
- Two submarine defense ships Udaloy class
- Two hunting submarines of the Akula - class
- A rocket -U- cruisers of the Oscar - II class