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Here are some of the weapons the US and its allies fired to sink 2 ex-warships during RIMPAC 2024
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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.
Here are the weapons the US and allied forces used to take out ex-warships Tarawa and Dubuque.
The US and its allies used two decommissioned US Navy warships as target practice last month, sinking the ships out in the Pacific in a demonstration of their ability to eliminate adversary surface vessels.
Ex-USS Tarawa, a first-in-class amphibious assault ship, and ex-USS Dubuque, an Austin-class amphibious transport dock, acted as simulated enemy warships during the sinking exercises, or "SINKEXs" for short.
The live-fire training was part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), the world's largest multinational naval warfare exercise held biennially in and around the Hawaiian Islands.
More than 25,000 military personnel from 29 nations participated in RIMPAC this year, which ran from late June to early August. Three submarines, 40 surface ships, 14 national land forces, and more than 150 aircraft were deployed to test and refine naval tactics and skills in a simulated combat environment.
Armed forces from the US, Australia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and South Korea took part in the SINKEXs last month, pummeling the decommissioned warships with an array of weaponry launched from land, air, and sea.
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