RIMPAC Strengthens Allied Coordination Capability: US Commander Ensures Immediate Response in Crises

This video reports that during the RIMPAC military exercises, a US commander explains how allied navies practice submarine tracking, data sharing, and network coordination to ensure immediate response and joint combat capability when a crisis occurs.

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In the RIMPAC military exercises, five submarines participated, giving all partner nations the opportunity to train above submarines in challenging maritime environments, high sea states, and strong wind conditions, and to conduct handovers with different partner nations, which fully reflects the real‑world situation when we must carry out missions on duty.

Therefore, RIMPAC is very important; we have these opportunities to build relationships and mutual trust. If something were to happen in Taiwan, how would your air‑to‑air data be handled? That is a primary reason we come to RIMPAC—we have dedicated forces, and we are the CTF champion.

I am responding to the SIPMIC tasking; partner nations lead these missions, so we are practicing how, if we detect a submarine while on duty, we share that data, whether we can transmit it in real time via data links and secure networks to our commanders, allies, and partners. I can say that we are now proving in real time that we can cooperate and achieve this, thereby being ready to respond at any moment.