HMAS Sydney and the US Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Preble (right) sail in formation behind the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, awaiting their turn to take on fuel from the replenishment oiler USNS Yukon.
HMAS Sydney (top right), US Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyers USS Preble and USS Chung-Hoon and the Japanese Maritime Defense Force Murasame class destroyer, JMSDF Murasame manoeuvre in close formation as US Navy P-3 Orion aircraft fly overhead for a photographic exercise at the completion of Exercise Pacific Bond 2013.
816 Squadron Seahawk helicopter flew the Australian White Ensign over a multi-national fleet of 20 Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and international warships
A Russian Ground Forces MI-24 Gunship patrols the area as Ukrainian servicemen guard a checkpoint near the village of Strelkovo in Kherson region adjacent to Crimea