The US Navy has sunk the decommissioned amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu in a live-fire sinking exercise in the Pacific, using unmanned surface vessels and anti-ship missiles fired from a submarine, according to the US Navy. The Tarawa-class ship, hull number LHA 5, was targeted during Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2026 on 17 July. A single target is often engaged by a range of platforms, from ships and aircraft to submarines, using missiles, torpedoes and gunfire. The ship was decommissioned in 2015 as the last of the Tarawa class, and took its name from the 1944 Battle of Peleliu. RIMPAC 2026 is the 30th exercise in a series that began in 1971.