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We'll see how the SinkEx on the ex-USS Tawara goes at RimPac 2024. I'd be surprised if they don't use some ASBMs. But larger ships are built to take an incred
by ethbr1 2y ago
We'll see how the SinkEx on the ex-USS Tawara goes at RimPac 2024.
I'd be surprised if they don't use some ASBMs.
But larger ships are built to take an incredible amount of punishment. It typically takes a heavyweight torpedo to crack them (hence why ASW is a primary skill set for navies). The physics of getting a 1/4 ton+ non-nuclear warhead (torpedo class) highly maneuvering are rough.
And there's a reason the Navy developed and deployed SM-6, and is now adding SEWIP Block III...
https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=rimpac+sinkex https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=rimpac+sinkex
- generic92034 2y agoJust recently a major ship was sunk, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Moskva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Moskva Did they make mistakes?
- dylan604 2y agoAre you asking if the underfunded Russian military made mistakes in manning a ship, building a ship, designing a ship? Surely, it was meant to be rhetorical
- bee_rider 2y agoTechnically, the Russian military didn’t make any mistakes in designing or building that ship since it was inherited from the Soviet Union. Although make the mistake was having it still in operation…
- ethbr1 2y agoStill having a conscript-based navy? Loading their capital ships decks with exposed, extremely large anti-ship missiles? And they likely still would have been able to tow it back to port, if the weather hasn't been bad.