Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) presents participating nations with opportunities to work together on mutually beneficial defence projects. HMAS Success was the ideal platform to support Australia’s involvement in the practical component of a joint Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, United States and United Kingdom co-ordinated electronic warfare experiment known as TAPA.
TAPA is a long-term series of experiments, which test new and emerging systems that are designed to protect ships from missiles and disrupt their initial targeting. The purpose of the practical component, completed onboard Success over the first five days of the RIMPAC sea phase, was to improve current practice and test new methods of anti-ship missile defence.
