The Navy's biennial submarine Arctic
Ice Exercise, or ICEx, is also used to validate tactics, techniques and procedures with regional partners.
Royal Navy submarine HMS Trenchant breaking through the metre-thick ice of the Arctic Ocean on
Ice Exercise 18 in pictures newly released last night
Navy Dept., "
Ice Exercise 2009," Rhumb Lilies, 9 March 2009.
The Royal Navy submarine is taking part in
Ice Exercise 18, a major operation in conjunction with US forces.
In particular, the released data included additional echo soundings collected by American and British nuclear submarines and by six scientific submarine cruises in 1993-99 of the SCience
ICe EXercise (SCICEX) project (Newton, 2000), which incorporated a specialized swath-mapping system on the submarine USS Hawkbill (Edwards and Coakley, 2003).
The latest Deep Siren trial took place in March during the Navy's ICEX (
Ice Exercise 2011), a semi-annual event that serves as a test for submarine forces, which conduct operations in the Arctic.
But, there is that one operational exercise that ties into almost every facet of the maritime strategy, but few are aware of:
Ice Exercise (ICEX) in the Arctic Ocean.
The submarine force conducts
Ice Exercises (ICEX) in the Arctic to ensure continued access to this unique region.
Navy and civilian scientists--the Science
Ice Exercises (SCICEX) program.