Posted on 12/08/2014 5:37:47 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
“Wow, looks like it could hold a lot of cheap Chinese crap.”
Wallmart ships 600,000 containers of chinese crap here every year!
And one torpedo from one submarine will stop it dead in the water. No sonar, just passive “home on noise” guidance from 25,000 yards out, no periscope observation needed nor wanted.. Just listen, track a few minutes, shoot. Go someplace else. Shoot another cargo ship or tanker. Go someplace else. Shoot another tanker. .....
It took 4-5 torpedoes to sink one WWII cargo ship averaging only 10,000 tons cargo.
A single modern sub can stop (might not sink, but it is stopped dead) 1,000,000 tons of cargo in one mission.
It was a rare, very rare WWII sub skipper who had more than 50,000 tons the entire war.
a fact that keeps the breakers in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in business.
The story said it was meant for the China to Europe circuit.
Are we building those locks as well only so some Democrat can give them away later.
One engine, one screw, proven economical and reliable.
We had break downs on rare occasions but all were fixed at sea. As an example, one of the break downs occurred when an injector nozzle failed. You replace them like giant spark plugs in a ring around the head.
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