SINKEX exercises—during which decommissioned warships are sunk under fire—remain a way to provide training that cannot be replicated outside of armed conflict. During the September 2022 Atlantic ...
Key Points and Summary - The massive multinational naval exercise UNITAS 2025 culminated on October 7th with a Sinking Exercise (SINKEX), where allied forces used a decommissioned warship as a ...
The U.S. Navy will occasionally sink its own old, unwanted ships, but it's an expensive business, so why would it want to do a thing like that?
U.S. Navy’s 2005 SINKEX (Sinking Exercise) on the decommissioned supercarrier USS America (CV-66). This remains one of the ...