#海军第三舰队近日表明也将扩大其在印太地区的活动 #
The Third Fleet's jurisdiction covers an area of about 50 million square kilometers (including the Bering Sea, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and parts of the Arctic) in the eastern and northern Pacific Oceans. The fleet has just completed the 2022 Rim of the Pacific Exercise, in which 26 countries, including the United States, participated.
Vice Admiral Michael Boyle, the fleet's commander, said in a recent interview with the USNI News that with military changes in the Indo-Pacific region, the U.S. Navy's Third Fleet is playing and expanding its role, either as a mobile division of the Pacific Fleet or to the front when the Seventh Fleet is busy with other missions. In addition, the Navy has also strengthened the deployment of nuclear submarines in the Western Pacific. In April, the Navy sent two attack submarines to Guam, and five nuclear submarines currently have Guam as their home port. As of March, the U.S. Navy has 68 nuclear submarines, 41 of which are owned by the Pacific Fleet, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the total number of U.S. nuclear submarines. It seems that in order to deal with China, the United States has really taken pains.
