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2005-03-04 Home Front: Tech

Navy Will Sink Retired Carrier America In Explosive Tests

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Posted by longtime lurker 2005-03-04 3:02:14 PM|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's gonna take a big boom to sink that carrier, was it the first Saratoga that withstood two near nuclear blasts?

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-04 4:17:50 PM|| 2005-03-04 4:17:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Saratoga is in the center.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-04 4:21:01 PM|| 2005-03-04 4:21:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 They should hold a contest to rename the America before sinking her. The USS Bin Laden? The USS Chirac? The USS John Kerry? The USS Michael Moore? I'm sure my fellow RBers can think of others.

Posted by Tibor 2005-03-04 4:25:12 PM|| 2005-03-04 4:25:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 How about room for one test before scuttling the ship? The Navy could leave one Phalanx CIWS system on board and install a Sea Ram system for effectiveness tests on various anti-ship missile systems (third parties can provide non-US made missiles). Naturally, the ship would not be sunk before removing the machinery being tested.

Something near a real-world test should be performed on these systems; during the only opportunity that came about so far (USS Stark), the Stark's Phalanx CIWS supposedly wasn't working correctly.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-04 4:31:41 PM|| 2005-03-04 4:31:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps Eason Jordan and Peter Arnett could give us first hand coverage of what it is like to be tied ot the mast of a carrier going down. Have them relate the Yamaguchi experience.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-04 4:51:14 PM|| 2005-03-04 4:51:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Tobor, too bad USS Jimmy Carter is already taken...

How about USS {Bill|Hillary} Clinton?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-04 5:05:10 PM|| 2005-03-04 5:05:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 First, urg, it would have to be the USS Monica, for obvious reasons. Seriously, as a surgeon buries his mistakes, I suspect that the Navy is planning to sink some of theirs. I would not be surprised if, by Navy accounting, entire warehouses of spare parts and equipment go down with the ship.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-04 5:52:01 PM|| 2005-03-04 5:52:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Sounds like a good MOAB test.

Posted by BH 2005-03-04 11:36:48 PM|| 2005-03-04 11:36:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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