#RIMPAC WATCH: 🇺🇸. & 🌍 Partners conduct two SINKEX 👀 - Long-planned, live-fire sinking exercises - Sank decommissioned USS Dubuque (LPD 8) & Tarawa (LHA 1) - B-2 Spirit stealth bomber carried out a QUICKSINK demonstration - F/A-18 Super Hornets fired anti-ship missiles 🎥DVIDS | NextGen PHDefense

After its service ended, USS La Salle (AGF-3) was used as a target ship in US Navy exercises. Previously serving as the command ship and floating headquarters for the Sixth and Fifth Fleets, La Salle was eventually utilized in live-fire exercises (SINKEX) to test the effectiveness of weapons systems against large surface targets. As a target ship, its hull and superstructure were subjected to a variety of weapons, providing crucial data on the impact of gunfire and the ship's structural resilien

Anzac Class frigate HMAS Stuart successfully fired two harpoon missiles and coordinated the missile firings of three other ships during one of RIMPAC’s best-known serials called the SINKEX, where participants sink a decommissioned warship. Two of the Navy’s Fleet Air Arm MH-60R Romeo helicopters embarked in HMA Ships Hobart and Arunta also fired Hellfire missiles during the training serial on 29 August. HMA Ships Hobart, Stuart, Arunta and Sirius, which have been part of the Regional Presence De

Sinking A Navy Frigate With Missiles And Torpedoes – SINKEX Sinking Exercise Aerial video of the sinking exercise (SINKEX) of the decommissioned USS Thach (FFG 43) during Rim of the Pacific 2016. The decommissioned ship is fired at with missiles and torpedoes until they sink. The Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Thach was decommissioned after more than 29 years of naval service in the year 2013. | The British Falkland Islands & British Military