We were doing an exercise with scare charges (1/4 stick of dynamite) to simulate explosions.
Well, one of the trainers didn't throw it far enough from the ship and rattled the ship enough to have a vavle leave a high pressure bottle and a break a few other minor things in the immediate area. No hull breach though.
So, ~6500 malfunctioning valves and ~6500x few other broken minor things?
Perhaps they can offset that by letting sailors bring more of their personal effects as long as they count as "minor things" and place it in those places :P
Now that I read it after having eaten some food, I actually managed to get the picture.
Of both, the previous - valve leaving the bottle - and the - projectile into the bilge.
Okay, I had to look up "bilge" for that.
Although I don't remember there being threads to hold down a valve wherever I saw them, I'd rather not have to visit a ship again, just to make sure.
A real cope hull needs to create a bubble curtain around the ship (in addition to the metal cage). Bubble curtains greatly help to attenuate shockwaves in water.
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HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 196d
We were doing an exercise with scare charges (1/4 stick of dynamite) to simulate explosions.
Well, one of the trainers didn't throw it far enough from the ship and rattled the ship enough to have a vavle leave a high pressure bottle and a break a few other minor things in the immediate area. No hull breach though.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 196d
Torpedoes, meanwhile, contain about 6500 quarter sticks of dynamite.
ulterno@programming.dev · 6 pts · 195d
So, ~6500 malfunctioning valves and ~6500x few other broken minor things?
Perhaps they can offset that by letting sailors bring more of their personal effects as long as they count as "minor things" and place it in those places :P
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 195d
No, the valve still functioned. It just took all the threads holding it in to the bottle with it when it took the rocket sled to the bilge.
Edit: 6500 valves would be almost all of them.
ulterno@programming.dev · 0 pts · 195d
All those words made sense. Separately.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 195d
Do you want to understand what it all means?
ulterno@programming.dev · 1 pts · 195d
Now that I read it after having eaten some food, I actually managed to get the picture.
Of both, the previous - valve leaving the bottle - and the - projectile into the bilge.
Okay, I had to look up "bilge" for that.
Although I don't remember there being threads to hold down a valve wherever I saw them, I'd rather not have to visit a ship again, just to make sure.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 195d
It depends on the valve. Think of scuba tanks. Those valves are screwed in.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 11 pts · 196d
A real cope hull needs to create a bubble curtain around the ship (in addition to the metal cage). Bubble curtains greatly help to attenuate shockwaves in water.
Staples_McGee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 196d
Welcom back torpedo nets.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 5 pts · 196d
Cope rope
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 195d
What about massive baggies of Nickelodeon Gak strapped to the hull to slow the torpedos down?
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 196d
So, everyone here aware that modern torpedos create air bubbles under the ship to break the keel.
WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social · 6 pts · 196d
It's not about physics, it's about what you can convince some failson procurement officer in the Pentagon to pay an eye watering amount of money on