USNI News | March 6, 2025

The U.S. Navy began anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercises in Hawaii and Guam on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a Chinese and a Russian surveillance ship have been conducting separate sails around Japan’s southwest islands and Australia has now tasked three frigates to shadow a People’s Liberation Army Navy task group that has been operating around Australia since mid-February. On Tuesday, U.S. Navy submarines, ships and aircraft began exercise Black Widow 2025 off Hawaii, reads a Navy release. The drill combines submarines, surface ships and aircraft into a team tasked to track and engage a simulated adversary submarine.

Commander, Task Force (CTF) 34 will serve as the unit commander during Black Widow 2025, responsible for exercising command and control over exercise units.

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