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Three Royal Australian Navy vessels, HMA ships Hobart, Parramatta and Stuart, are currently embarked on the 2019 Maritime East Asia Deployment, the RAN’s second multiple task group activity in the region this year.
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Nine ships and over 1,000 personnel across two task group elements will eventually visit the region on deployment from the RAN.
This is the first overseas deployment for the new destroyer HMAS Hobart, which will lead the first task group element, which also features HMA Ships Arunta, Sirius, Leeuwin, Ararat, Gascoyne and Diamantina, as well as two submarines.
Task group ships will visit Guam, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Over the next several months, ships in the different task group elements will participate in Exercises Nichi Gou Trident, Haedoli Wallaby, Annualex, Pacific Vanguard, Bersama Lima, MASTEX, New Horizon, Multinational Mine Warfare and Hyuga Nada.
They will also take part in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Review, a Mine Counter Measure Symposium, South Korean International Maritime Defence Industry Exposition, as well as commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Battle of Surigao.
Take a look at the image gallery above for the latest images released by Defence of the Maritime East Asia Deployment.
