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Fire! The U.S. Navy Just Sunk Its Very Own "Assault Ship" in a Wargame
During Valiant Shield 2024, the ex-USS Cleveland (LPD-7) was sunk in a planned sinking exercise (SINKEX) to provide realistic training for U.S. Navy personnel.
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-The retired amphibious transport dock was thoroughly cleaned of hazardous materials per EPA guidelines before being sunk in deep waters.
-SINKEX exercises enhance combat readiness by allowing live-fire training on actual targets, offering invaluable experience that simulations cannot match, and providing critical data for future vessel development.
U.S. Navy Sinks Retired Warship in Valiant Shield Exercise
It was only a drill, but during the recently concluded Valiant Shield (VS) 2024 – a multinational, biennial field training exercise conducted in the Indo-Pacific – one U.S. Navy warship was actually sent to the bottom of the sea. The amphibious transport dock ex-USS Cleveland (LPD-7) was sunk approximately 40 nautical miles from land in the North Pacific Ocean's Mariana Island Range Complex.
It wasn't an accident, however, but rather part of a carefully planned sinking exercise (SINKEX). The Austin-class amphibious transport dock – the third ship of the U.S. Navy to be named for the Ohio city – had been maintained at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, since November 2017. The retired vessel was sunk as a target on June 17, during a naval-fire exercise.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/fire-us-navy-just-sunk-its-very-own-assault-ship-wargame-211548