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> hull damage being caused or not caused by a rifle being fired from the flight deck of a ship How did that happen? Our MarDet would occasionally do live-fire
by dctoedt 2y ago
> hull damage being caused or not caused by a rifle being fired from the flight deck of a ship
How did that happen? Our MarDet would occasionally do live-fire training off the flight deck (CVN-65); they naturally pointed their weapons away from the ship ....
Or are you talking about hitting the hull of a different ship, e.g., one of the tin cans in plane guard, or alongside during an UNREP? Seems like that would ... get noticed by a lot of folks.
- RandomThoughts3 2y agoHypothetically, someone could have left a guest (like say an engineer from the shipyard doing sea acceptance testing) fire a rifle and an unlucky wave reflection might have bounced a round back towards the bow.
- dublinth 2y ago"A wave? At sea? Chance in a million."
- rtkwe 2y agoWow what an incredibly unfortunate hypothetical situation. 1 in a million ricochet that one.
- Breza 2y agoWould love to see someone fire a Phalanx for four hours just to generate enough test data to assess that probability
- KennyBlanken 2y agoDraw a ship. Draw some waves. Note the angle from Crayon Eater those waves. Also note how wide an angle "ship hull" represents both vertically and horizontally. Not so 1 in a million.
- Dylan16807 2y agoSure, if it bounces that's a very big angle. But what's the chance of a bullet that hits water bouncing back the other way at high speed? I would have thought it was zero!
- edm0nd 2y agoSeabees doing seabee things.