On Monday afternoon, a floating boom surrounded a large two-masted sailing vessel that sank over the weekend at its Alameda dock in the Oakland Estuary. The Kaisei is a replica of a 151-foot ...
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The Navy’s self-destruct drills: Why old US ships become live-fire targets
The U.S. Navy has been known to learn survivability by sinking a ship on occasion. A sinking exercise, SINKEX in military jargon, involves using a former hull as a full-spectrum target to allow crews ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces accidentally sank Monday hours before the mock ...
Warships being hit by enemy fire and sinking to the bottom of the sea is, as you may have gathered, a big part of naval combat. And it's been that way throughout its entire history, even as some ...
More than a 100 years after the Titanic, the dream of unsinkable ships is still alive, thanks to the development of aluminium tubes that can float ‘forever’.<br /><br /> ...
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