NEWSMAX Foreign Affairs Correspondent Alex Salvi brings you an exclusive look aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a $8.5 billion nuclear-powered aircraft carrier floating in the Pacific Ocean, for RIMPAC 2024—the world’s largest maritime exercise.
The United States, Thailand and Canada successfully concluded the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training Thailand maritime exercise in Sattahip, enhancing combined naval capabilities and reinforcing a shared commitment to a free and secure Pacific region.
This year’s Rim of the Pacific maritime exercise will include more than two dozen experiments with unmanned systems and the sinking of two derelict ships.
Japan fired an antiship missile outside its territory for the first time, joining American, Philippine and Canadian forces in a maritime exercise near the South China Sea.
The massive Rim of the Pacific maritime exercise will feature about 40 surface ships, 140 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel from a record 31 nations.