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Navy Test Fired Korean Rockets From CUSV At RIMPAC

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

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Navy Test Fired Korean Rockets From CUSV At RIMPAC

A Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV), heads out to sea for the Poniard launching test from the ROKS Cheon Ja Bong tank landing ship as part of the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) on July 12, 2024. (Photo: Textron via U.S. Navy)

The Navy performed a live-fire demonstration testing a set of South Korean Poniard rockets from a Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV) during the international Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 exercise based near Hawaii. The Navy said this successful test of low-cost munitions occurred on July 12 off the coast of Hawaii, with the CUSV first launched from the South Korean ROKS Cheon Ja Bong tank landing ship. This was the “culminating event of an ongoing Foreign Comparative Test (FCT)…

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