Sinking Exercise during Rim of the Pacific • Twenty-two Nations, More Than 40 Ships & Submarines

PACIFIC OCEAN. Aerial view of the sinking exercise (SINKEX) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, about 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 26 to August 1. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2014 is the 24th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

★00:00★ - The ex-USS Ogden (LPD 5) is fired upon by a harpoon missile from the Republic of Korea (ROKS) submarine LeeSunSin (SS 068) and then by a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) from the Royal Norwegian Navy frigate HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen during a SINKEX as part of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014.
Pacific Ocean Footage from the SINKEX of ex-USS Tuscaloosa (LST 1187) during Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2014.

★01:23★ - Pacific Ocean Footage from the SINKEX of ex-USS Tuscaloosa (LST 1187) during Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2014.

★01:40★ - Aerial video of the sinking exercise (SINKEX) of the decommissioned guided-missile frigate USS Crommelin (FFG 37) during Rim of the Pacific 2016.

★02:33★ - Aerial view of the sinking exercise (SINKEX) of the decommissioned USS Thach (FFG 43) during Rim of the Pacific 2016. Participants in the exercise include U.S., Canada, Australia, and the Republic of Korea.

★06:26★ - GUAM forward looking infrared radiometer (FLIR) imagery from a U.S. Navy Patrol Squadron 46 P-3 Orion documenting live fire from ships and aircraft participating in Exercise Valiant Shield 2016. The decommissioned USS Rentz (FFG 46) sank in waters 30,000 feet deep, 220 nautical miles northeast on Guam.

★07:30★ - USS Ronald Reagan Sinkex, RIMPAC 2010. Aircraft firing weapons at decommissioned warships with the purpose of sinking them.