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.

 


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  1. Bad news: fail to sink
    Good news: Still have a practice target, try harder

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    1. Probably a mission kill, at least. Helo hanger is gone and the crew would be busy fighting fires and providing first aid.

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  2. In other bad news, Bangladesh deprived of a few thousand tons of scrap steel.

    --Generic

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  3. Also, lots of information there for iterative suvivability improvements to naval architecture.

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  4. A 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.

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  5. 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.

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  6. Can't they work that shit out without shooting up a ship? Or, does it give them a hard-on?

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    1. Real science requires experimentation and testing.

      They don't teach that anymore because ignorance advantages politicians, so probably not your fault you don't understand.

      Klebert L. Hall

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    2. 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.

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  7. This was an absolute kill.

    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.

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