An F/A-18-fired anti-ship missile was used to sink the former amphibious assault ship on July 19 during Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2024. By Jeff Schogol Published Jul 23, 2024 12:51 PM EDT Good night ...

September 23, 2024: In July of this year the U.S. Navy disposed of two retired amphibious ships by having ships and warplanes fire on them. The two ships were equipped with electronic sensors to ...

The US sank a decommissioned ship in the Pacific using a low-cost bomb from a B-2 stealth bomber. The USS Tarawa, a 39,000-ton amphibious assault ship, was sunk on July 19. China criticized the ...

Two US Navy ex-warships were sunk during live-fire training near the Hawaiian Islands last month. Sinking exercises are intended to test and refine combat tactics and skills against surface ships.

Lately, most big multinational naval training exercises have been in the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic. And British and American forces haven’t really been able to show what their arsenal can do to ...

The U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit carried out a QUICKSINK demonstration during the second SINKEX (Sinking Exercise) of RIMPAC 2024. This marks the very first time a B-2 Spirit has been publicly reported ...

KAUAI, Hawaii — The 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force, partnered with the 1st MDTF, the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade and the 5th Surface to Ship Field Artillery Regiment of the Japan Ground Self Defense ...

USS Durham, we hardly knew you. Ships and aircraft from ten nations participating in the Rim of the Pacific exercise sank the former amphibious cargo ship in a dramatic live-fire exercise Aug. 30, ...

Key Points and Summary - The massive multinational naval exercise UNITAS 2025 culminated on October 7th with a Sinking Exercise (SINKEX), where allied forces used a decommissioned warship as a ...

SINKEX exercises—during which decommissioned warships are sunk under fire—remain a way to provide training that cannot be replicated outside of armed conflict. During the September 2022 Atlantic ...