PACIFIC OCEAN (July 21, 2022) Royal Australian Navy Able Seaman Anna Campbell raises the national flag of Japan as Royal Australian Navy auxiliary oiler replenishment ship HMAS Supply (A 195) conducts a replenishment-at-sea with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Takanami (DD 110) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC pr
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 21, 2022) Royal Australian Navy Able Seaman Anna Campbell raises the national flag of Japan as Royal Australian Navy auxiliary oiler replenishment ship HMAS Supply (A 195) conducts a replenishment-at-sea with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Takanami (DD 110) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Photo by Royal Australian Navy Leading Seaman Ernesto Sanchez)
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