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HMAS Sydney leaves Pearl Harbor for the RIMPAC 2026 sea phase

Grey Australian destroyer with hull number 42 and a tall mast sailing left to right across clear turquoise water at the Pearl Harbor entrance under white clouds, with low green shoreline and hills behind and rocks in the foreground.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Vance Hand · Public domain (U.S. Navy photo)

ARCHIVE photo, taken July 8, 2026, released by the U.S. Navy (ID 260708-N-ZS023-1196, DVIDS 9800547). The Navy caption says the Royal Australian Navy Hobart-class destroyer HMAS Sydney (DDG 42) departed Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to start the sea phase of Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2026, with 30 nations taking part from June 24 to July 31. It was part of the 131-day deployment that Defence says ended at Fleet Base East on Oct. 18.

What
HMAS Sydney leaves Pearl Harbor for the RIMPAC 2026 sea phase
Where
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
When
2026-07-08
Source
U.S. Navy
Credit
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Vance Hand
License
Public domain (U.S. Navy photo)
Details
Official release · U.S. Navy, via DVIDS · Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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Sources and credit

  1. U.S. Navy
  2. Field footage: the full record

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