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Big doings in the Pacific
Lengthy article for ZH, has a whole lot more relevant info than just what I pasted below.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pacific-crowded-unprecedented-number-war-games
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in cooperation with the US Navy, conducted on Kauai what it called Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 31 to demonstrate the capability of a ballistic missile defense (BMD)-configured Aegis ship to detect, track, engage and intercept a medium-range ballistic missile target with a salvo of two Standard Missile-6 Dual II (BMD-initialized) missiles.
To the chagrin of the MDA, with the Russian signals ship as a witness, the May 29 missile test eventually was carried out with ship-fired missiles but they failed to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile target.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor made this statement at the time, saying it was-
"aware of the Russian vessel operating in international waters in the vicinity of Hawai’i, and will continue to track it through the duration of its time here. Through maritime patrol aircraft, surface ships and joint capabilities, we can closely monitor all vessels in the Indo-Pacific area of operations."
A few days later, US Air Force F-22 jets made two sudden flights out of Hawaii with the Indo-Pacific Command eventually acknowledging that "several Russian ships and aircraft" were 200 miles to the west of the Hawaiian Islands and the F-22s had been sent out to keep watch on them.
The "several ships and aircraft" turned out to be the largest Russian naval maneuvers in the Pacific since the end of the Cold War.