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[shredder]

The various world militaries often do the same thing with old, worn-out ships, expend them as targets for bombs, missiles, torpedoes, etc.

It's realistic training, and probably less expensive than sending the ships to the breakers (it costs a lot of money to remove weapons systems, asbestos, etc etc). Hell, even Essex-class carriers have been sunk as targets, artificial reefs, and diving sites.

I think it's a more fitting end for the old warbirds and ships than being broken up for scrap/recycling.

 

[grelmar]

So there you are, enjoying the sunny South Pacific weather, minding your business, doing your bit for the Emperor by using your fishing trawler to deliver some food and supplies to the hard pressed young men defending a remote island against the rampaging Yanks, when out of the sun - screaming along at full throttle, low enough to tow a waterskiing line - comes some Brooklyn nutjob in an A-20 Havoc, who took time off from his career snatching purses from grannies to learn how to skip bombs across the water into the sides of defenseless little boats like yours while unleashing a hail of lead from from a half dozen .50 Cals in your general direction, And it was such a lovely day.

(Douglas A-20 Havoc practising skip bombing , http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_a-20_skip_bombing.html)

 

[R005t3r]

Don't forget the B-25 Mitchells with that ass opening 75mm gun. Always a good time.

 

[bearhunter]

The various world militaries often do the same thing with old, worn-out ships, expend them as targets for bombs, missiles, torpedoes, etc.

It's realistic training, and probably less expensive than sending the ships to the breakers (it costs a lot of money to remove weapons systems, asbestos, etc etc). Hell, even Essex-class carriers have been sunk as targets, artificial reefs, and diving sites.

I think it's a more fitting end for the old warbirds and ships than being broken up for scrap/recycling.

Maybe back in the 70s ships were sunk as reefs without cleaning them up, but shortly after that, those scheduled to be reefs, etc were completely scrubbed of anything toxic.

Supposedly, even target ships are stripped of anything toxic or useful before they're sent to the bottom. At least in North America that's what supposed to happen.

 

[Dosing]

 

[DragonFire]

Allegedly the first 3"50 AA platform to be installed on a battleship in 1916.

DF

 

[diopter]

Dusting an exhibit at International Maritime Museum Hamburg.
"We have been asked several times how we keep the object in our collection dust free. In many cases the displays we use slow the setting of dust and preserve the objects in general, there is never way around cleaning. Generally, such actions are not really spectacular. Of course, when it comes to the 1:16 scale model of the convoyer Wapen von Hamburg III (1722) that hangs from the ceiling in the open area between deck 2, 3 and 4 of the museum, it’s a whole different story."

 

[Dosing]

Don't know what you see from your car wash...




But at Ellsworth its a B29

 

[Dosing]

Also an A26 at Ellsworth

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Maybe back in the 70s ships were sunk as reefs without cleaning them up, but shortly after that, those scheduled to be reefs, etc were completely scrubbed of anything toxic.

Supposedly, even target ships are stripped of anything toxic or useful before they're sent to the bottom. At least in North America that's what supposed to happen.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/annaopolis-howe-sound-wreck-dive-1.3540854


Grizz

 

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[Dark Alley Dan]

Millions and millions of dollars worth of 109s right there.

The first guy to sort out a time machine will be the wealthiest man in history.

 

[HuskyDude]

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[I Dont Care About You]

Millions and millions of dollars worth of 109s right there.

The first guy to sort out a time machine will be the wealthiest man in history.

Yea, just go back and buy Microsoft and Apple stock.

 

[woodchopper]

Yea, just go back and buy Microsoft and Apple stock.

gold..... tons of it that have disappeared over time

 

[grelmar]

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Realistically, it was the beginning of what would evolve into the internet as we know it. Binary coded messages zipping through the ether.

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[diopter]

A Swiss Army Panzer 68 hull being heat treated in an oil bath, at an Eidgenoessische Konstruktionswerkstaette facility in Thun, Switzerland, 1977.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

If that facility doesn't play Wagner at full volume 24/7, I'm going to be disappointed.

 

[Painkillers]

 

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