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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

US Navy tests Pandarra Fog in exercise


To defend its carrier battle group from a potential attack by Chinese supersonic cruise missiles such as the C-602 and the C-805, the United States Navy launched an exercise to test its new obscurant, Pandarra Fog, between June 21-25 this year near the island of Guam according to National Defense, a monthly magazine operated by the Russian defense ministry.

The USS Mustin and the USS Wayne E Meyer, two Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers, were tasked with protecting the USS Frank Cable, an Emory S Land-class submarine tender, which was to be disguised as an aircraft carrier or some other large vessel of the United States Navy during the exercise.

The destroyers released the carbon fiber clouds known as Pandarra Fog to defend the submarine from simulated incoming enemy anti-ship cruise missiles.

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