Littoral Combat Ship Integrates with Marine and Unmanned Steel Knight 23 Assets

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Dec 16, 2022

EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN - A UH-1Y Venom helicopter assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, sits on the flight deck of Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Jackson (LCS 6) while a Jackson Sailor, right in yellow, signals to a departing AH-1Z Viper helicopter during an integrated, expeditionary maritime fires Steel Knight 23 event, Dec. 11. Steel Knight is an annual combined-arms live-fire exercise led by the 1st Marine Division that ensures forces are optimized for naval expeditionary warfare in contested spaces and is purpose-built to facilitate future operations afloat and ashore.

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