Dozens of Navy ships from everywhere in the world have descended on Pearl Harbor as half for Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2016, the world’s largest worldwide maritime train.

Participating on this 12 months’s occasion, lasting from June 30 to August 4, are a complete of twenty-six nations, greater than 40 ships and submarines, greater than 200 plane and 25,000 personnel in and across the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.

RIMPAC offers a novel coaching alternative that helps contributors foster and maintain the cooperative relationships which might be essential to making sure the security of sea lanes and safety on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is now the twenty fifth train within the sequence that started in 1971.