[TXnMA]

"The area you have colored purple surrounds an object. Do you know what that object is ?"

I assume you're referring to that table-looking thing with the white "bumps around the edge of the "tabletop"...

Nope -- I'm a USAF guy -- and I wondered, too. Maybe some of our Navy friends can help...

[rlmorel]

The area in purple is a sponson, and it looks like an antennae or even a chaff dispenser of some kind.