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New York City Fleet Week 2020. On March 27, 2020, it was announced that the in-person Fleet Week event had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Virtual Fleet ...
Watch as the annual Fleet Week (FWNY) begins in New York City on Wednesday, 24 May, celebrating maritime forces. A ceremonial parade of vessels will sail past Manhattan and Staten Island, passing ...
20 F-35B Lightning II stealth strike-fighters. 6 SH-60F / HH-60H ASW helicopters. USS Bataan (LHD-5) is a Wasp -class amphibious assault ship in the United States Navy. The ship is named after the Battle of Bataan, fought in the Philippines during World War II. The ship enables the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps team to seamlessly transition ...
6 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) M2HB machine guns. USS Oak Hill (LSD-51) is a Harpers Ferry -class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She is named in honor of Oak Hill, the residence of James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States. The Monroe Doctrine was penned at Oak Hill, and subsequently delivered at an 1823 congressional address ...
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6 SH-60F / HH-60H ASW helicopters. USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is the third Wasp -class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She is the fifth ship to bear that name, but the fourth to serve under it, as the third was renamed Hornet (CV-12) before launching (after the prior Hornet was sunk). [2]
John F. Kennedy returned to the U.S. in time to participate in Fleet Week in New York and Independence Day celebrations in Boston, Massachusetts before receiving an "All-hands" recall on 10 August 1990, for Operation Desert Shield. The ship was empty of fuel, and ordnance and equipment as she was ready to join the yards for some SRA maintenance.
Wasp was the principal attraction at Fleet Week 2007 in New York City. MH-47 Chinook takes off from Wasp. On 4 October 2009, Wasp deployed from her base at Norfolk Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia on a three-month voyage down the Atlantic coast to the Caribbean, with Destroyer Squadron 40 and an embarked Marine Air-Ground Task Force. [6]