How Many Shots Does it Take to Sink a Frigate?



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48 Comments

  1. War war war. Die die die. I know some of these things have a real place in life. Humans will never stop finding new ways to kill each other. The real question is why? And is it worth it.

  2. HOLY HELL!!! The explosion of the torpedo was powerful enough to rip that thing in half life tissue paper.

    I find it impressive to think that literally 4000 tons of naval metal can rip apart like that is just incredible, yet scary at the same time.

    Besides, the only place where you think this sort of stuff happens is only on documentaries about past conflicts, not some modern-day warship.

  3. Ships expended in a SINKEX are often used to establish reefs and diving zones and must comply with tons of OH&S and environmental laws so will all generally have no fuel or ammunition aboard. An active warship is basically a box of firecrackers sitting on top of a 55 gallon drum of petrol – it's often a ship's own ammunition that takes it to the bottom.

  4. Imagine what a torpedo could do if it exploded under the keel of a large cruise ship. The size and interior design of the bigger cruise ship would be its vulnerability. A couple of rogue nations operate subs

  5. Nope, this is due to the Oliver Hazard Perry frigate being the most awesome ship ever made. It's the A-4 Skyhawk of the sea. My dad was CO of the USS Reid. I'm not biased at all. 😉

  6. Aiming high against a ship with no munitions.. lol remember Scharnhorst was lost in part because of a mission kill on its radar. Modern warships are paper, the equivalent of a Leopard tank – counting on not getting hit.

  7. It takes literally so little effort to like look into this stuff…

    When you want to send an enemy worship you don't aim below the water line with missiles, a missile is literally not designed to hit below the water line, because if they impact with the water they are infinitely less effective. The missiles hit into the side of the ship right above the water line which is what it appears that the anti-ship guided missiles are doing in this video.

    One Harpoon is simply not enough to sink a frigate in the US Navy is well aware. The only Naval Munitions that are designed to strike below the waterline are torpedoes and if your warship gets close enough to an enemy warship that you can start launching Torpedoes you've made some serious fucking mistakes.

    You even stumble into the right answer in the end. A single Harpoon might not sink a Perry class frigate, but it will normally incapacitated.

    Also just because this ship doesn't instantaneously drop below the waves does it mean it's going to keep on top of them for very long. Sinking a ship takes time and when there's no munition stores to explode aboard the vessel you can't wait for the fires to cause an explosion.

    If I a random nobody no more about this situation inherently than you the person who posts a video after supposedly doing research then why on God's green earth should I ever watch your content? Not least of all the issue with your lack of accuracy.

  8. They only do this for smaller ships, if thet do it at all. Most surface fired weapons could damage themselves, or worse, upon trying to breach the surface of the water due to their speeds. Its like jumping off the golden gate bridge and hitting the water at speed vs a diving board. Thats why most surface fired weapons tend to impact at, or just above the water line. Explosives are still going to rip a hole in the hull that extends below it.

  9. Also, the Ship is 100% empty of munitions and other explosive materials. Majority of the ships that were sunk in the past, weren't from the initial strike, it was from a round hitting a Munitions room which would immediately turn the ship into past tense in said explosive cook off.

  10. That torpedo hit is what we just did to that unsuspecting Iranian Frigate the IRIS Dena, except we used two torpedoes and the ship sank in about three minutes.

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