Back with a bang

摘要

The US Navy has used the multinational RIMPAC 2012 exercise to end its two-year moratorium on sinking discarded warships for live-fire target practice. The ban on the so-called 'sinkex' on environmental and cost grounds ended in explosive fashion with the sinking of three former US Military Sealift Command vessels during the naval exercises that take place in and around the Hawaiian Islands every two years.