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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Navy has a process known as SINKEX or “sink at-sea live-fire training exercises” when a retired hull is used as a full-sized instrumented target. It is among the few instances during peace ...

U.S. Navy’s 2005 SINKEX (Sinking Exercise) on the decommissioned supercarrier USS America (CV-66). This remains one of the ...