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RIMPAC 2024 Featured Sinking Exercises To Test New Naval Weapons

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RIMPAC 2024 Featured Sinking Exercises To Test New Naval Weapons
The decommissioned amphibious assault ship, ex-USS Tarawa (LHA-1), is escorted out of Pearl Harbor during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) on July 16, 2024. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Courtney Strahan)

The Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 exercise featured several long-planned live-fire sinking exercises (SINKEXs) this month, sinking two decommissioned U.S. Navy ships. The decommissioned Austin-class USS Dubuque (LPD-8) amphibious transport dock ship was hit on July 11 and the former amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa (LHA-1) was hit on July 19. The Navy underscored LHA-1 was sunk by a Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) from a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet. A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber also…

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