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1 posted on 04/24/2010 8:05:46 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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2 posted on 04/24/2010 8:08:59 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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3 posted on 04/24/2010 8:11:34 AM PDT by mnehring
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Hopefully this will allow the South Koreans to figure out the impact point and size of the explosive to prove that it was an external explosion, how big it was and how close to the ship it was when it detonated. It would be nice to figure out if it was a torpedo, relatively recent mine or an old on left over from the war.
5 posted on 04/24/2010 8:18:49 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
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Thnaks for taking time to post these important and interesting photographs.


6 posted on 04/24/2010 8:20:37 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (“Si vis pacem, para bellum” - if you want peace, prepare for war.)
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Wow...what great pictures!

No wonder we called them targets.


7 posted on 04/24/2010 8:21:07 AM PDT by montomike (Politics should be about service and not a lucrative, money-making opportunity!)
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I forgot to add...

That crane on the different barges is proably more impressive than the ship...the half a ship.


8 posted on 04/24/2010 8:22:16 AM PDT by montomike (Politics should be about service and not a lucrative, money-making opportunity!)
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In the explosion caused the metal to be bent inboard it was a mine or a torpedo!


9 posted on 04/24/2010 8:23:38 AM PDT by WellyP
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Does anyone know what is highlighted in the red circle?


10 posted on 04/24/2010 8:24:52 AM PDT by Jewels1091
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External explosion on the port side, just behind the tower.

WTF happened to the Bofors?


12 posted on 04/24/2010 8:26:20 AM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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It looks like the filled it with a fiaming urethane compound that seeped out.

However, one of the turrets looks like it was blown outward with explosive force.


13 posted on 04/24/2010 8:29:09 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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Thanks, will look closer later.

At first glance, I thought they had brought up the whole ship.


25 posted on 04/24/2010 8:46:28 AM PDT by razorback-bert (So many questions, so few answers about Barry.)
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It appears that there was an explosion on the starboard side with a lot of intense heat which burned the paint off beside blowing the ship apart a little aft of its mid point.


28 posted on 04/24/2010 8:54:53 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Use your $'s as weapons! Boycott Gay Frisco, since they keep Pelosi in congress.)
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bump


32 posted on 04/24/2010 9:05:23 AM PDT by VOA
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The size of the crane is incredible!


33 posted on 04/24/2010 9:08:46 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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I firmly believe the rat bastard Korean communists sank that vessel. No question. I believe those scumbags in their military and government have a long deserved beat down coming in their future.

In payback for the crew of the USS Pueblo (my father was an acquaintance of the skipper, CDR Bucher) and the murdered crew of the EC-121 that was shot down in 1969, I believe they have it coming.

I still think we should send in a B-1 with about ten MK84 JDAMS to put the poor USS Pueblo to rest.


38 posted on 04/24/2010 9:22:50 AM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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That is massive catastrophic destruction. That ship went down very fast.

And the blow came from below, there is no indication of fire on the upper surfaces of the ship indicating destruction from above, and destroyers don’t just cut themselves in half behind the conning tower.

Torpedo.


39 posted on 04/24/2010 9:34:28 AM PDT by Danae (Don't like the Constitution, try living in a country with out one.)
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Great post, that’s one heck of a crane ship!


41 posted on 04/24/2010 9:45:47 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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42 posted on 04/24/2010 10:01:02 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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My compliments to the South Koreans: that was a very skillful and professional recovery job.

As I wrote earlier, (based on review of the Pohang class, and on stern section damage alone) the blast was placed (fore-aft) beneath the stack, possibly toward its forward end. And it was almost centered under the keel.

It's particularly useful that they recovered and photographed the stack section. I'll try piecing together a composite photo to see what that shows. If anything illuminating is revealed, I'll share it here......

My guess is that even the largest carrier would have difficulty surviving an explosion of that magnitude and placement.

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I hope the missing sailors' remains were all recovered.

45 posted on 04/24/2010 10:22:12 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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bookmarked


51 posted on 04/24/2010 11:33:55 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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