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To: BobL

—— I know they lost the dry dock.——

How do you know?

Floating dry docks are designed to sink. Once the scuttle valves are closed it can likely be refloated


6 posted on 11/01/2018 8:45:52 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: bert

Ok, but what about the carrier. Did they actually lose it, or was it just gashed at the waterline, as I read?


8 posted on 11/01/2018 8:51:10 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: bert

“Floating dry docks are designed to sink. Once the scuttle valves are closed it can likely be refloated”


Things really fell apart on them...the carrier has a 5-foot gash near the water line, and the deck has apparently also been pierced. That isn’t going to just buff out.

However, I must admit that I am very concerned that we’re falling behind the Russians...they now proved to the entire world that they have Transformers. Their carrier-containing dry dock transformed into a submarine in just a couple of minutes!!!


14 posted on 11/01/2018 9:40:17 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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