The USS Klakring, a former US Navy frigate decommissioned in 2013, is slated for the chopping block—though some have wondered ...

Liberator is a classified seabed warfare system deployable from uncrewed submarines, capable of firing the U.S. Navy's ...

The Army, Air Force and Navy joined troops from other nations in blowing up the decommissioned USS Mobile Bay and USS Peleliu.

June 26, 2026: Last year the American Navy used four aerial drones and a single naval drone in a SINKEX\Sinking Exercise. The target was a retired frigate. The drones attacked the frigate several ...

As part of Large Scale Exercise 21, on 15 August, US joint forces launched multiple missiles and torpedoes from air, land and sea at a decommissioned Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate.

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 ...

Although a variety of retired warships have been employed as targets in past US Navy SINKEX operations, the ex-USS Simpson was the final frigate to be retired from service. The theme of this year’s ...

"The Sinkex program provides numerous benefits to the Navy by making target vessels available for at-sea live-fire exercises," Navy spokesman Christopher Johnson said in an e-mail. "It provides ...