Yeah, look at the USS Belknap. for example. It's not like Naval Air, though, where they can rivet the BuNo plate to an new airframe and pretend that it's the same aircraft.Originally Posted by Lester Polfus
When they started work on the Belknap, every so often, all the workers would come boiling out of the ship. When they did so, it was because a team had cut into a mass of formerly-molten metal that contained a body.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Or any sane nation with the stones. So, Israel.
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That will not buff out. Damnit. VTOL for F35's may become far more commonplace on far more ships.
More recent pics seem to suggest that the nearby ddg's are now not so nearby, which is good.
They rebuilt this destroyer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Laffey_(DD-724) after all those kamikaze attacks. Maybe they can rebuild this ship.
Seems to be a thing to set fire to your amphib ships: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...s-assault-ship
There's far more time and expense involved in rehabbing that amphib compared to a tin can.
We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.......
True, just giving an example. Someone is in trouble for having lots of flammable materials and no fire control available. Wonder how the damage compares to the exploding bomb incidents on the carriers in Viet Nam days, IIRC? Would have to look that up but maybe someone knows.
There's an insightful sort of article from The War Zone from a submariner on the unique risks present at in-port maintenance that also includes possible improvements to the process.
Ship Vulnerability in Port
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The one bright spot is, since the ship was in overhaul, there wasn't any ordnance on board. It can take a lot to sink a ship. What really does the damage are secondary explosions from ordnance and fuel stores.
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That's a decent article, but his point that it would not have happened on a nuclear-powered ship is, frankly, garbage.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
This is a total diversion. I got into an argument about the Independence Day movie. If one recalls, a small nuke seemed to have exploded a ship as big as a small moon. It was said that the size of the bomb wouldn't have done that. I said, the bomb obviously set off internal power supplies or ordnance. Sort of like what happened to HMS Hood. Many battleships took lots of hits to sink but Hood went with a salvo, although the actual cause is still debated. It did set off something.
They say the fuel tanks are safe in the LHD. That would have really done them in.
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