[TXnMA]

That bow-on view is a thing of beauty! You can clearly see the batboat's bow leap up as it accelerates into the path of the larger vessel. That same increased forward thrust was visible in the hose-spray-shrouded side view, but the head-on really shows that the idiot terrorists committed "batboat suicide".

Loved the shot of that piece of junk sinking!

Only thing prettier would be seeing that thing being raked stem to stern by a Phalanx burst...

[dasboot]

Actually, I believe the spray was purposed to illuminate the laser beam being trained on the whaler's bridge. Watch the connected vid from Japanese source.

And I have to admire the restraint of the whaler's captain: there was no reason not to believe the laser was NOT an aiming device. The whaler could have sunk the Ada, and justified it, and any loss of life...but chose to disable the boat, instead, with a glancing blow.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

 

Classic pirate problem solver:

 

 

 

 

Double the boom, double the fun