The ex-USS Ingraham, an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate, was the last example ever built. She was just decommissioned in 2015 before being put on the roster of ships set aside for SINKEX.
It is standard practice to seal up the target ship's compartments and remove all major combustibles prior to a SINKEX, which offers a bit more survivability than what a normal operational configuration could offer, although she has no sailors executing damage control, either.
The USS Ingraham in normal operation, 2008.
A more honorable way to die than being torn apart, scrapped and the metal sold to the Chinese so they could make bombs and bullets out of it to use against us in the future.
ReplyDeleteWait a minute, didn't we go through a similar exercise many decades ago?
Should have packed it slam full with criminal communist american citizens and gov't employees first.
ReplyDeleteHear...Hear!
DeleteThat feeling when all the ships you knew when you were in are being sank as targets. Although I agree with bogsidebunny, it's a "useful death". But still...this gets me in the feels.
ReplyDeleteLive In Shame - Go Down In Flames .... blub-blub-blub
ReplyDeleteShe deployed with my battlegroup back in the late 90's. Later, I briefly served on USS FORD FFG 54. They really were great ships. 98% of my career was the Burke DDGs
ReplyDeleteIdiots.
ReplyDeleteAs if our Navy was oversupplied with decent ships, or the men to sail on them.
There's a whole class of LCS wastes-of-aluminum they could have used, and simultaneously improved our actual naval capability by sinking them.
We're already wishing we could deploy those 50 figs five minutes ago, and the replacements haven't even been laid down yet.