South Korea also sent a one-star Navy official to the exercise for the first time since 1990.ĭuring the naval drills, Rear Adm. In particular, it marks the first time that the landing platform helicopter ship Marado, which is the South Korean Navy’s largest vessel, the Shin Dol-seok submarine, indigenously developed Korea Amphibious Assault Vehicles, the 59th Naval Mobile Construction Squadron are participating. The 1,800-ton Shin Dol-seok attack submarine, one P-3 maritime surveillance aircraft, two Lynx multirole naval helicopters and nine Korean amphibious assault vehicles are set to participate in the 2022 RIMPAC exercise.Īround 1,000 military personnel, including one company of the Marine Corps’ amphibious force, four teams of Naval Special Warfare Flotilla, and the 59th Naval Mobile Construction Squadron have been sent as well. South Korea’s Navy also underscored that the flotilla sent this time is the largest ever in scale compared to the size of the Navy and Marine Corps forces that were previously dispatched for overseas military exercises.Ī total of three warships - which consist of the 14,500-ton Marado amphibious assault ship, the 7,600-metric-ton Sejong the Great-class Aegis destroyer equipped with SM-2 surface-to-air missiles and the 4,400-ton Munmu the Great destroyer - have been dispatched to Hawaii. The US Navy-led multinational maritime exercise is scheduled to be conducted in waters off Hawaii for 37 days from June 29 to Aug. This year marks South Korea’s 17th participation in the RIMPAC exercise since 1990. A flotilla of warships, maritime aircraft and troops left a naval base on the southern island of Jeju at noon Tuesday to participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise, South Korea’s Navy announced the same day.
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