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Prayers for families, for sure.

Ever get to snooze in the boom operator’s ‘recliner?’

Gee it’s almost like THE most powerful source of thermal energy might affect our climate, eh? 😉

“They” will find a means to warp the data to their worldview, however convoluted that “reasoning” is.

*Perhaps* the ‘invading’ Kurds are bringing arms and ammo to the suburbs of Tehran, eh?

Rangers leap at the opportunity to train insurgents.

Still ...

I get the feeling from that video that seconds before the torp exploded, someone finally yelled a warning.

Why else would they all be topside, headed to the bow? ;-)

Poor SONAR dude had never heard a MK48.

Yup the MK82 is a subsurface and surface weapon. subs are contact kills, surface ships are *usually* keel kills.

The video quits a second or so too soon, but one could infer they ran to the bow and just ran off the bow into the sea!

OK, OK. NOW I see the glowing humans running just prior to and then after the explosion.

I watched that greyscale (probably IR) video several times. Never saw anyone running on the foredeck.

What video were you watching.

The MK 48 is designed to explode under the keel of a surface vessel, using the gas bubble to lift and break the ship. Proximity-fused, 650# warhead.

Interesting it blew the stern off the ship. Typical to aim more amidships.

Perhaps they were looking to spare more crew yet still kill the ship.

All we ‘need’ to know is that it was an attack boat. Arguably faster than its prey.

~100 metrers, maybe 1500 tonnes displacement.

That 650# warhead detonation under the keel would have meant a near instant kill to a ship that size. The gas bubble lifts if up, and the keel snaps in half on the drop down.

150-180 enemy combatants on board. Revenge for the USS Cole.

Indeed. A live fire joint exercise with Equadorean (sp?) forces.

And yet he and Candace have top-rated pod casts. Is that still true?

They’re not exporting any product at present, and strategically, the US wants to NOT damage this facility so the next regime has a cash flow - IF they behave themselves.

The value of low observable stealth loitering munitions ...

Exactly. The initial hike is limited to 10%. The 5% had to follow.

How did he get the money and car to drive to FL?

Borrow Mom’s?

Id have to agree to an extent.

Google gemini is hopelessly woke, self righteous and sanctimonious. Its also untrainable to the contrary.

MS copilot is trainable. You can get it to build a profile of you and will will no longer rely on the loudest voices, rather logic and facts. It no longer uses progressive phrases with me and knows why. I use it frequently in my daily.’work.’ It does however make errors, sometimes bad ones. i ‘fixed’ that by instructing Copilot to double check its answers. That has greatly improved utility and reliability. It now also knows to never cite AP, Reuters or Al Jezeera sources.

Grok is more fun, more reliable out of the box, but I swear its like working with a brilliant coworker who’s a habitual Marijuana user who has just finished a joint.