{"id":4147129,"date":"2026-07-06T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/uss-mobile-bay-sinkex-rimpac-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:13:50","slug":"uss-mobile-bay-sinkex-rimpac-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/de\/uss-mobile-bay-sinkex-rimpac-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Navy Is Sinking Its Own Cruiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\n<p>Somewhere in the Pacific in the coming weeks, a US Navy cruiser that fired Tomahawks in two wars will be hit by torpedoes, missiles and bombs until she slips under &mdash; and the people shooting will be her friends. The decommissioned USS Mobile Bay is about to become the main event of RIMPAC 2026: the SINKEX.<\/p>\n\n<p>She won\u2019t go alone. The amphibious assault ship ex-USS Peleliu &mdash; a 40,000-ton flat-deck veteran &mdash; is also slated to be pummelled to the bottom during the exercise, according to reporting by the San Diego Union-Tribune picked up by The War Zone. Two very different targets, one shared fate, and dozens of navies taking notes.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:8px;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts: RIMPAC 2026 SINKEX<\/p><table style=\"border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top\">The targets<\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">Ex-USS Mobile Bay (CG-53, Ticonderoga-class cruiser) and ex-USS Peleliu (LHA-5, Tarawa-class assault ship)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top\">When<\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">During RIMPAC 2026 (June 24 &ndash; July 31, around Hawaii); exact date not announced<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top\">What happens<\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">Live-fire sinking exercise &mdash; the capstone event of every RIMPAC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top\">Mobile Bay\u2019s record<\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">Commissioned 1987; 22 Tomahawks fired in Desert Storm; strikes in Iraq 2003; 36 years of service<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top\">Class status<\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0\">One of four decommissioned Ticonderogas earmarked for sinking; nine remain in service<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Warship\u2019s Last Job<\/h2>\n\n<p>A SINKEX sounds brutal, and it is &mdash; deliberately so. Retired hulls are stripped, cleaned to environmental standards, towed far offshore and then used as the most realistic target the world\u2019s navies ever get: a real warship, built with real compartments and real damage control philosophy, absorbing real weapons. Torpedoes, anti-ship missiles, guided bombs, artillery &mdash; SINKEX targets often take an astonishing amount of punishment before going down, and every hit teaches engineers something about how modern warships die.<\/p>\n\n<p>The most recent example came just days ago, when a B-2 stealth bomber sank the ex-USS Juneau with a stealthy LRASM cruise missile during Valiant Shield &mdash; the first time that combination had ever been revealed. What weapons will finish Mobile Bay hasn\u2019t been announced, which is part of the drama: at RIMPAC, more than two dozen navies bring their arsenals.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=2072064463981756775&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">36 Years of Stories<\/h2>\n\n<p>Mobile Bay isn\u2019t just any target. Commissioned on February 21, 1987, the seventh Ticonderoga-class cruiser spent 36 years doing a bit of everything the US Navy does.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;The ship\u2019s operational history includes the 1989 evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon; launching 22 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) in support of Operation Desert Storm and the evacuation of thousands of people displaced by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the vicinity of Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines during Operation Fiery Vigil in 1991.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>US Navy<\/strong> &mdash; official ship history<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Add to that a drug bust that netted 10.5 metric tons of cocaine off Mexico and more Tomahawks fired at Iraq in 2003, and you have a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 few ships can match. She was decommissioned in 2023; a year later she was ruled ineligible for the National Register of Historic Places &mdash; the bureaucratic sentence that sealed her fate as a target rather than a museum.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1167397987  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:ZzFF.c30e\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/uss-peleliu-lha-5-philippine-sea.jpg\" alt=\"The amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu underway in the Philippine Sea\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Ex-USS Peleliu (LHA-5), the 40,000-ton assault ship that will share Mobile Bay\u2019s fate during RIMPAC 2026. US Navy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Slow Goodbye of the Ticonderogas<\/h2>\n\n<p>Mobile Bay\u2019s sinking is one chapter in a longer story: the drawn-out death of the Ticonderoga class. These cruisers &mdash; Tomahawk shooters, air-defence command ships, the protective backbone of every carrier strike group since the 1980s &mdash; are leaving service faster than replacements arrive. Nine are still in commission; six of those are headed for decommissioning within years, leaving just a modernized trio &mdash; Gettysburg, Chosin and Cape St. George &mdash; to soldier on toward the end of the decade.<\/p>\n\n<p>Four of their retired sisters &mdash; Mobile Bay, Vella Gulf, Antietam and Port Royal &mdash; are all earmarked for sinking exercises, following the ex-Valley Forge, sunk off Hawaii back in 2006. It is an oddly honest way for a warship class to end: not rusting at a pier, but going down fighting &mdash; even if, this time, the fight is one-sided by design.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Sources: The War Zone (TWZ), San Diego Union-Tribune, US Navy, The National Interest<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/rimpac-2026-30-nations-and-200-aircraft-converge-on-hawaii-for-the-worlds-largest-naval-exercise\/\">RIMPAC 2026: 30 Nations and 200 Aircraft Converge on Hawaii<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/b-2-spirit-lrasm-sinkex-valiant-shield-2026\/\">The B-2 Just Became a Ship-Killer<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/mq-25-stingray-nimitz-new-york-naval-review-250\/\">A Robot Tanker Sails Into New York<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in the Pacific in the coming weeks, a US Navy cruiser that fired Tomahawks in two wars will be hit by torpedoes, missiles and bombs until she slips under &mdash; and the people shooting will be her friends. 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