DVIDS – News – Navy Undersea Warfare units begin to practice the black widow 2025

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii-u-boats of the US Navy, ships and planes began the exercise of the black widow 2025 in the Hawaii business area, on March 4, 2025. Black widow is the leading tactic development exercise for US Navy-Untersee. and challenging training environment.

Not only the etc. operators offer live training, but also the black widow in practice, but also in the tactical development and training of units that have learned under a construct of the theater sub-water war (TOSW) in the tactical development and training of units. During the Black Widow 2025, Commander, Task Force (CTF) 34 will serve as TUSW commander to validate for the practice of command and control of practice units and the validation of new tactics, techniques and procedures that were introduced by the Undere Lake Throwing Development Center.

“The Black Widow Training Series is our annual Pinnacle event to deliver high-end-integrated theatres Undersee Warfare Tactical Development and Combat Readiness. It is incredibly valuable to work across domains to offer innovative skills that make us more capable and fatal, ”said Reard ADM. Rick Seif, commander of the Pacific submarine and CTF 34.

Commandant, destroyer squadron (DESRON) 23 will stand on board the guided missits of the Arleigh Burke-Class Uss Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) as a scene of the action commander for the exercise. In this role, Derron 23 will coordinate the localized multi-domestic search and tracking of a submarine in scenarios, which are becoming increasingly complex in the course of the exercise.

“Untersee warfare is a team sport, and we want our surface and aviation teammates to be ready to work seamlessly with our underwater shoulder-an-to-shoulder,” said captain Ryan Leary, Commodore, Desron 23.
Other units that take part in this year's exercise are the guided destroyers of the Arleigh Burke class, Michael Murphy (DDG 112), the submarine-submarine-u-boots-u-submarine in Virginia class (SSN 782) and USS Montana (SSN 794), P-8A-HAWID-ME-MEDOD climate (VP) 4 and A-hawid masid axes (VP) 4 and A-Hewid-20R-Sikadon from Patrool Squadron (VP) 4 and A-Maid-20R-Sikadon (and A-Me-60-meh-20r-Squ30 by Patrool Squadon (VP) and An-Maid-20r-Squabr. (HSM) 37, Michael Murphy started.

Black widow and other etc. exercises and operations emphasize the strategic importance of the Indo-Pacific region and the crucial role of the submarine in order to enable access to all-domes for the common strength. Etc. is a team performance that often requires realistic training between air, surface and underwater forces to maintain a high degree of willingness and interoperability.

Exercise Black widow 2023 took place in the Hawaii area. The exercise enables naval units to continue to develop the skills of the war struggle and at the same time work through the unique environmental problems in the Indo-Pacific region. Earlier iterations of this exercise have taken place in the Atlantic.

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