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re: Wreck of the USS Nevada found
Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:20 am to Scoob
Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:20 am to Scoob
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I remember seeing some of the photos, it's really amazing how durable those warships are.
One factor they have in they favor is that while objects on land are pretty much impacted dead on by the blast, the fact ships are floating on water means that they, to a degree, have some amount of give thanks to the fact the water is being pushed outward from the blast.
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Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:44 am to Scoob
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I remember seeing some of the photos, it's really amazing how durable those warships are.
For it's finale the Iowa and a couple other battleships used it as target practice.
They ended up having to torpedo it to sink it.
*Of course being a target ship the magazines were empty, so sinking it by shelling would have been rather more difficult.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:46 am to DavidTheGnome
Why is there a tracked vehicle on a battleship (2nd to last pic)?
Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:53 am to deltaland
Agreed. Why in the hell would that ship not be preserved?
Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:56 am to upgrayedd
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Why is there a tracked vehicle on a battleship (2nd to last pic)?
The tank was put on the deck for the nuke test.
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Agreed. Why in the hell would that ship not be preserved?
Well, it was rather radioactive after being blasted with nukes twice.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:57 am to StealthCalais11
Pretty sure the ship was radioactive with two nuclear bombs going off by it. No way you would make that a memorial. Some of the guns from the ship are stationed in Arizona state capital that were taken off before it was bombed supposedly.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:52 am to DavidTheGnome
Why would they intentionally sink it? Was there a specific reason to not preserve this SOB?
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:10 am to boosiebadazz
All you gotta do is be........close!
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:11 am to Brian Wilson
The fate of most armaments are scrap, target practice, or mothballing. Very few ships get mothballed.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:34 am to DavidTheGnome
is a tank doing there?
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:53 am to DavidTheGnome
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Nevada was selected as the central target for the first nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, where it survived a 23-kiloton aerial detonation (the bomb missed),
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Finally, on July 31, 1948, following a four-day naval gunfire exercise, the toughest ship of the Second World War was deliberately sunk in the Pacific by the U.S. Navy.
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Now, thanks to archival research and underwater survey of more than 100 square miles of seafloor, the remains of the Nevada have been located 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor.
So they towed this radioactive piece of steel back to Hawaii and sunk it there? Damn!
Posted on 5/13/20 at 11:16 am to DavidTheGnome
Almost 72 years in the ocean - damn good paint!
Posted on 5/13/20 at 8:30 pm to ZappBrannigan
quote:You have a lot of weapons you want to test out... theoretical blast radius is nice and all, but you have functionally outdated and still solidly built steel warships to bang away at.
The fate of most armaments are scrap, target practice, or mothballing. Very few ships get mothballed.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:13 pm to DavidTheGnome
Always amazing to see them fire the big guns broadside all at once and the ship move backwards 30-40 yards from the recoil.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:29 pm to DavidTheGnome
Mccaugnehey told us all to stay home POS
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:52 pm to MeridianDog
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Always amazing to see them fire the big guns broadside all at once and the ship move backwards 30-40 yards from the recoil.
Doesn't happen.
eta-If it did it will kill or injure everyone on the ship.
This post was edited on 5/13/20 at 9:53 pm
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:55 pm to Scoob
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I remember seeing some of the photos, it's really amazing how durable those warships are.
These were shown on Saturday mornings along with the movie, cereal, and cartoon, all for $0.12. Finally getting a TV ended all of that, and football took over.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:02 pm to BuckyCheese
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Why is there a tracked vehicle on a battleship (2nd to last pic)?
The tank was put on the deck for the nuke test.
Correct. One of those Saturday movies included that info.
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