USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) completed a joint Standard Missile 2 (SM-2) engagement with the USS Porter (DDG-78), not pictured, while underway in the North Atlantic on 20 May 2023. The engagement demonstrated the joint capacity of naval forces to face multiple threats. The USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) is currently conducting exercise Formidable Shield 2023, a biennial, integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) exercise involving a series of live-fire events against subsonic, supersonic, and ballistic targets, incorporating multiple Allied ships, aircraft, and ground forces working across battlespaces to deliver effects.
| Date Taken: | 05.20.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 05.22.2023 07:33 |
| Category: | Package |
| Video ID: | 884043 |
| VIRIN: | 230520-N-UD253-915 |
| Filename: | DOD_109650539 |
| Length: | 00:00:21 |
| Location: | U.S. 6TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY |
| Downloads: | 93 |
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