On Sunday, April 20, 2014 1:23:16 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:12:22 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 4/20/14, 12:04 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 10:03:06 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:
Any large warship at sea can be found and damaged or sunk. You can't
hide a military surface ship two football fields long at sea. The
Zumwalt is only 200 feet shorter than the Bismarck, and it was spotted
and sunk.
When was the last US warship "found and sunk"?
The U.S.S. Cole was "found" and seriously damaged in an attack in Yemen.
It didn't sink, but it was rendered useless.
Are you trying to say it can't happen?
It was not sunk and in relative terms, there was not even that big a
loss of life. Compared to WWII ships that were damaged and sailed
away, it was just a flesh wound.
That incident was just because we were lax in our security levels. A
small boat charging a warship like that in a hostile port these days
would be blown out of the water.
I bet you would even be engaged if you did it in the US (probably
simply arrested but they might shoot)
You go first ;-)
One of the girls on our boat on the river cruise down to Charleston took a couple of pictures of the sub base as we were passing by, against my warnings. We were boarded by the navy police in the RIB with the .50 caliber that is stationed on the river 24/7. The guy didn't have much of a sense of humor, but after he watched her delete the pics from her camera (from a vantage point that gave him a good look down the front of her skimpy black bikini), he let us go.
On another trip, we were passing by an unmarked blue and white cargo ship that was being loaded in the harbor. Got too close, and a couple of coasties in RIBs chased us away. As we swung out and passed by, we could see military trucks being loaded.
They seem to take security fairly seriously.