The United States Navy and 28 partner nations will begin the 29th biennial Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 exercise on Thursday around the Hawaiian Islands with 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel taking part in the drills that will end on Aug.1 according to a navy release.
Aircraft including the F-35 Lightning II fighter, P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA), and V-22 Osprey will be operating out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay.
RIMPAC 2024 will include multi-domain warfare in a range of scenarios from anti-submarine warfare, multi-ship surface warfare, multinational amphibious landings, and multi-axis defense of the carrier strike group against live forces.
The amphibious and land forces will be made up of nine partner nations and 13 ships while a humanitarian aid and disaster relief (HADR) exercise with eight countries, five ships, five landing craft, five aircraft, multiple land forces, and over 2,500 total participants including the participants of the statewide Hawaii Healthcare Emergency Management exercise will be carried out as part of RIMPAC 2024. The HADR exercise control and scenario development are supported by subject matter experts from the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management, Pacific Disaster Center, USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, and Singapore’s Changi Regional Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Coordination Centre.
The previous RIMPAC in 2022 involved 25 partner nations, 38 surface ships, three submarines, nine national land forces, approximately 170 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel.
Partner nations for RIMPAC 2024 are Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Republic of Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga and the United Kingdom
The Navy has listed a full list of participating ships which are as follows:
United States
Aircraft Carrier
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
Guided-missile Cruiser
USS Princeton (CG-59),
Guided Missile Destroyers
USS Kidd (DDG-100)
USS Sterett (DDG-104)
USS William P. Lawrence (DDG-110)
USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62)
USS Gridley (DDG-101)
USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54)
Submarines
USS North Carolina (SSN-777)
USS Topeka (SSN-754)
Amphibious Warships
USS Somerset (LPD-25)
USS Germantown (LSD-42),
Coast Guard Cutter
USCGC Midgett (WMSL-757)
Fleet Oilers
USNS Pecos (T-AO-197)
USNS John Lewis (T-AO-205),
Logistics Ship
USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11)
Rescue and salvage ship
USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51)
Australia
Guided-missile Destroyer
HMAS Sydney (DDG48)
Brunei
Offshore patrol vessels
KDB Darussalam (06)
KDB Darulaman (08)
Canada
Frigate
HMCS Vancouver (FFH331)
Offshore patrol vessel
HMCS Max Bernays (AOPV432)
Fleet oiler
MV Asterix
Chile
Frigate
Almirante Condell (FF-06)
France
Frigate
FS Bretagne (D655)
Germany
Frigate
FGS Baden-Wurttemberg (F222)
Fleet oiler
FGS Frankfurt Am Main (A1412)
India
Frigate
INS Shivalik (F47)
Indonesia
Frigate
KRI Raden Eddy Martadinata (331)
Italy
Offshore patrol vessel
ITS Raimondo Montecuccoli (P432)
Japan
Guided-missile destroyer
JS Haguro (DDG-180)
Tank landing ship
JS Kunisaki (LST-4003)
Malaysia
Frigate
KD Lekiu (FFGH30)
Mexico
Frigate
ARM Benito Juarez (POLA-101)
Tank landing ship
ARM Usumacinta (A412)
Netherlands
Frigate
HNLMS Tromp (F803)
New Zealand
Fleet oiler
HMNZS Aotearoa (A11)
Peru
Amphibious landing platform dock
BAP Pisco (AMP-156)
Republic of Korea
Guided missile destroyers
ROKS Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin (DDH-975)
ROKS Yulgok Yi I (DDG-992),
Submarine
ROKS Lee Beom-seok (SS-081)
Tank landing ship
ROKS Cheon Ja Bong (LST-687)
Singapore
Frigate
RSS Stalwart (72)
In other developments, the Navy issued a release on Wednesday stating that the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) with embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11, and destroyers USS Halsey (DDG-97) and USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) depart Busan on that day following a scheduled port visit.
The Theodore Roosevelt CSG will carry out the U.S.-Japan-South Korea trilateral exercise Freedom Edge before making its way to the Red Sea.
