Army Times:
After years of developing a new way to link all the services in a fight across domains, the Army put its concept into action in the first-ever field exercise testing Multi-Domain Operations.
The result was an array of precision strikes on land and at sea, coordinated through a web of contacts across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, along with allied nations, in the largest maritime exercise in the world, Rim of the Pacific, or RIMPAC.
One key target during RIMPAC: the USS Racine, a decommissioned naval vessel.For the first time, the Army participated in a SINKEX, or sinking exercise, at RIMPAC, firing long-range artillery, air attacks and shore-based missiles at the decommissioned ship, sinking it into the Pacific Ocean…
