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| Watch Newport class Landing Ship-Tank amphibious ship USS Racine sunk at RimPac. |
| 2018-07-20 |
| [TheDrive] Multiple types of weapons were fired at the ship during the highly anticipated drill, which included land-based attackers for the very first time, and in a big way. A variant of the U.S. Navy's recently selected Naval Strike Missile was launched by the U.S. Army—which is also looking to acquire the weapon—from a palletized truck-mounted canister. It flew 63 miles to impact the target successfully. Japan also unleashed four of its Type 12 land-based anti-ship missiles at the ship, which marked the first time Japanese anti-ship missiles were fired under the command of U.S. military assets. According to Military.com, nearly half a dozen HIMARS guided-artillery rockets were also fired at the vessel. The push to migrate the hugely successful HIMARS into a maritime and even an anti-ship role is something we once suggested ourselves and have been following closely as of late. It was all but a given that it would be featured in some sort of live-fire fashion during RIMPAC 2018. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #1 Pretty sure the PLAN will be along shortly to ....clean up the mess. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a22172524/chinese-spy-ship-hawaii-rimpac/ |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2018-07-20 20:32 |