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For the foreseeable future, the United States and China are locked in a security competition. 

Multiple Launch Rocket Systesms may be accurate enough to potentially hit a ship, as the SINKEX exercise highlighted, but GPS-guidance alone will not suffice to hit a moving target.

But why on earth is the land warfare branch practicing sinking ships?

For the foreseeable future, the United States and China are locked in a security competition. 

autoevolution 21 May 2021, 15:09 UTC · by 1 photo If there’s one industry sector that could really benefit from the use of unmanned vehicles, that’s the storage sector. When you think about all the operations that are performed on a daily basis and all that heavy cargo that needs to be moved around, it’s no wonder that autonomous vehicles seem like the perfect idea. And this is what the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) probably thinks too, because it just awarded Robotic Research a c...

On July 12, 2018, the USS Racine met her grisly fate. The 522-foot long tank landing ship was struck by four different types of guided missiles, one of which triggered a massive explosion that sent shards of debris spraying across the sea and ripped open part of her hull, exposing the inner decks. Finally, a Mark 48 torpedo struck the forty-six-year-old vessel beneath the waterline and nearly snapped off her bow. An hour later, the five-thousand-ton ship sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean...

(This article first appeared in 2018.) On July 12, 2018, the USS Racine met her grisly fate. The 522-foot long tank landing ship was struck by four different types of guided missiles, one of which triggered a massive explosion that sent shards of debris spraying across the sea and ripped open part of her hull, exposing the inner decks. Finally, a Mark 48 torpedo struck the forty-six-year-old vessel beneath the waterline and nearly snapped off her bow. An hour later, the five-thousand-ton ship ...