Battleship Blown Up And Sunk : theCHIVE

Matt

looks like an old battleship that retired to the bottom of the sea. pretty cool.
Train

Nice timing, with that “incident” in North Korea.

HellHathNoFury

Sometimes I would love nothing more than to see the aircraft carriers at PSNS do this. *waits for Feds to blow my door in and seize computers*

HellHathNoFury

How…how did you know? You don’t hang out at Our Place Pub, do you?

Mustafa_Beer

There is a bar I missed? Either I missed that one, or was warned off…

Vince

Dude! Where you been!?? I’ve missed your crappy comments for so long now. Welcome back!

Mustafa_Beer

Last one looks like a star wars prototype
Eric

Torpedo’s carry a scary amount of BOOM in them….the explosive power it takes to rip that much steel in half is down right ginormous!

HellHathNoFury

Forgive us, Captain Obvious, for having some pop-culture fun with the title instead of delivering the class, name and origin of this particular destroyer.

dom112

Its the Ex destroyer escort HMAS Torrens (DE53) Royal Australian Navy. Nuff said?

HellHathNoFury

Ha! Called it. And Jose, I can write one up for you if you’d like. Destroyers are much easier to lay blueprints for than say, an aircraft carrier or Los angeles or Ohio class nuc sub

HellHathNoFury

*herher* I said ‘sub’ to a Dom…herher. i’ll go bleach my brain now.

Jose Biscuits

Nah, I want a full blueprint of the hull. Now.
Camel Joe

if you ever happen to see an aircraft carrier blown up it would be “premature” to not shit your pants.
Rusty

Test of the Mk48 torpedo, IIRC. Pretty badass weapon.

I got to participate in a SINKEX some years back, of one of the old LHA’s. Tough old bitch …

First the subs put torpedoes into her – three Mk48′s, between the two SSNs – and that didn’t kill her. Then the carrier’s air wing went to work. Bombs, missiles, etc. Still floating. Then 2 cruisers and 4 or 5 destroyers went to work with Harpoon. Still afloat. Next morning we had to put her under with gunfire.

Was a pretty awesome thing to see, actually.
poppajo8

I noticed this wasn’t a battleship too, and as I read these responses I was wondering if anyone else would comment. Not that it’s a big deal or anything, I just wondered if I was missing something.
cowpoke

Wow! Equalizer is back!
buck

listen children, she was a leander class frigate. dunnowhat navy. i served on two of them in the R.N