Posted on 04/14/2022 1:07:24 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Don’t know about the Russian Navy, but modern US warship, with the exception of carriers, have aluminium hulls. Neptune has an 700 lb warhead? The Japanese Long Lance torpedo only had 600 lb warheads and were considered quite deadly. Ever seen what an Exocet missle Will do to a DLG? An Exocet is small potato’s compared to a Neptune. It’s not just the explosive of the missle that causes the damage, consider the mass of the missle, engine, unburnt fuel and terminal velocity of it all. The Moskova weighed 18,000 lbs, which suggests aluminium construction. Many WWII heavy cruisers weighed at in at 32,000 + lbs. They were steel hulled. On the Moskova the sixteen deck mounted missle launchers would seem to be a high risk item for detonation. Add that to the mix and it may explain why there was only 54 survivors.
If that’s true, then we no longer have to send “those poor Ukrainians” any more money or weapons. Americans have myriad problems that need fixing but instead we’re sending millions/billions to a corrupt foreign country run by a dictator and his cadre of white nationalists.
It’s very disturbing to think two missiles were enough to kill a ship like this.
***The US Navy is taking note and will have the same attitude it had with Billy Mitchell, stick their head in the sand and say “It can’t happen to us because we’re the US Navy.”
“Americans have myriad problems that need fixing but instead we’re sending millions/billions to a corrupt foreign country run by a dictator and his cadre of white nationalists.”
I agree that we need to stop buying oil from Russia.
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