And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, November 9, 2020
HMS Boxer(F92) after being hit with two Harpoon missiles. This was part of a SINKEX, a target ship used to for practice.
On the gripping claw, no crew and hence no damage control. The Japanese thought they had sunk "The Grey Ghost" several times but the Yanks had an amazing shipyard that could turn out a complete duplicate in months.
No they can't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo#:~:text=The%20Mark%2014%20torpedo%20was%20the%20United%20States,in%20the%20last%20two%20years%20of%20the%20war.
On a ship that had been combat armed, half-fueled, and with aircraft fuel onboard as well, this would have been a non-survivable hit, with multiple secondaries.
Think U.S.S. Arizona, or Forrestal.
All command from the bridge lost, and total loss of propulsion plant, besides completely mission-incapable. This is a corpse that doesn't know it's died.
The Harpoon does a last-minute terminal pull-up, and dives down onto the target, so the blast would probably have taken out a substantial number of would-be damage controllers from the get-go as well.
Bad news: fail to sink
ReplyDeleteGood news: Still have a practice target, try harder
Probably a mission kill, at least. Helo hanger is gone and the crew would be busy fighting fires and providing first aid.
DeleteIn other bad news, Bangladesh deprived of a few thousand tons of scrap steel.
ReplyDelete--Generic
Also, lots of information there for iterative suvivability improvements to naval architecture.
ReplyDeleteHit twice?
ReplyDeleteA fully fueled and armed vessel would not have fared this well by any stretch of the imagination. It would burn for days, if it did not sink.
ReplyDeleteOn the gripping claw, no crew and hence no damage control.
ReplyDeleteThe Japanese thought they had sunk "The Grey Ghost" several times but the Yanks had an amazing shipyard that could turn out a complete duplicate in months.
Can't they work that shit out without shooting up a ship? Or, does it give them a hard-on?
ReplyDeleteReal science requires experimentation and testing.
DeleteThey don't teach that anymore because ignorance advantages politicians, so probably not your fault you don't understand.
Klebert L. Hall
No they can't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo#:~:text=The%20Mark%2014%20torpedo%20was%20the%20United%20States,in%20the%20last%20two%20years%20of%20the%20war.
DeleteThis was an absolute kill.
ReplyDeleteOn a ship that had been combat armed, half-fueled, and with aircraft fuel onboard as well, this would have been a non-survivable hit, with multiple secondaries.
Think U.S.S. Arizona, or Forrestal.
All command from the bridge lost, and total loss of propulsion plant, besides completely mission-incapable. This is a corpse that doesn't know it's died.
The Harpoon does a last-minute terminal pull-up, and dives down onto the target, so the blast would probably have taken out a substantial number of would-be damage controllers from the get-go as well.