£307M for a warship?
Please!
That’s like $450M, US.
MbS (Saudi prince) has yachts worth more than that.
I’m guessing they save a lot on labor costs. No minimum wage and unions? Fergetaboutit!
The warship the USN lost in a shipyard fire was 16 times the displacement of the Russian corvette. The LHD Bonhomme Richard was a critical flagship for our Pacific amphibious warfare capability, and it was a total loss.
Our fire and ship loss was caused by crew sabotage.
I’d hold off on laughing at the Russian loss. It was piddling compared to ours.
Class and type Gremyashchiy-class corvette
Displacement 2,500 tons
Length 106.0 m (347.8 ft)
Class and type Wasp-class amphibious assault ship
Displacement 40,358 long tons (41,006 t) full load
Length 844 ft (257 m)
See 19-21.
That’s what you get for going to a used-war-ship dealer. “Honest Boris. We do war ships. Yeah. Come buy.” You call that ad copy?
It was purchased at Walmart.
Battleship is now used as a generic term for any warship of any type by many—Really Battleships (as a type) are obsolete as Ironclads, and Ships -of-the-Line, Triremes, and Sloops of war. Great in their day, but that day is done. Someday carriers will be obsolete as well, some believe they are now.
Battleship is now used as a generic term for any warship of any type by many—Really Battleships (as a type) are obsolete as Ironclads, and Ships -of-the-Line, Triremes, and Sloops of war. Great in their day, but that day is done. Someday carriers will be obsolete as well, some believe they are now.
The vodka must have caught fire.