The Scary Way US Navy Sinks its Own Billion $ Ships in Middle of Ocean
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2023
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The three ships that I served on are luckily still active duty and will be for decades more (USS Essex LHD-2, USS Momsen DDG-92 and USS Halsey DDG-97). The ships sunk in the various RIMPAC SINKEX's are in tens of thousands of feet of water, there are very few fish and no corral at those depths!
The training is invaluable,works for me.
I was so happy they made my ship a floating museum and large numbers of people see it everyday. I have a personal reason for this because I have my painted murals on the ship that I did 50 years ago.
Thank you for doing such an awesome job painting them. That's quite a pat on the back knowing that they kept those murals displayed for all those decades.
I was in the US Navy for 8 years. My first and third ship were used as target practice. USS Guam LPH9 and the Peterson DD 969.
The USS RACINE LST 1191 was my first ship 79 to 81 it was very hard to see her go down so unceremoniously
Better than being scaped for razor blades!!!
Fun fact - the US navy maintains a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana named Constitution Grove comprised of white oak specifically and exclusively for the maintaining of the USS Constitution! Pretty crazy, right!
Crane is a beautiful base. Hundred square miles of mostly forest. Until 9/11 it would host annual bike rides on it's traffic free paved roads.
Yes especially since our current government doesn’t try to follow it!!
@@mikepainter3111 what?!
@@mccoybyz1099 Obvious to me. Sorry.
@@mccoybyz1099 He's whining because he perceives some sort of civil rights violations by the current administration while simultaneously seeing no issue with the blatant violations by the previous one. He's a melty little snowflake and is probably mad about his gay beer.
What's crazy is just how hard it is to sink a naval vessel.
Look up the USS Nevada, it took two atomic bombs like a champ and still didn't sink.
@@moosefromsky3986 Exactly what I'm referring to. My grandfather was at bikini and talked about how a nuke couldn't sink many of the ships on the first try
Yes my ship took everything they had and it sunk in the night!!!
Correction about the U.S.S. Rancine. A Newport class LST is not heavely armored ship. It is a thin skinned ship. I was on LST 1189 for 3.5 years and Newport class LSTs do not have armor.
The first ship at 3:37 was the USS McClusky (FFG-41), and the second ship at 4:29 was the USNS Kilauea (T-AE-26), I served on both during my Naval career and it's kind of sad to see them go that way.
Yes, the Kilauea. Did several ammo unreps with her and the glorious mail call.
They did the same thing to the USS Acadia, very sad to see them go
If you're serious that is awesome! Also thank you for your service.
Better to go down helping training and intact rather than getting cut up to pieces as scrap !
@@josephpadula2283 maybe the U.S. Navy has many retired warships that are more suitable for training naval personnel
Plays better at 1.25 speed.
it actually is kinda nice!! love the videos just would like to seem em sped up a bit
Thanks 😂
u the goat for this
@@tiltonevans8901 thanks G
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so they talk about pollution and global warming but still sink ships on purpose in the sea lmfao the irony
What does that have to do with anything
Please educate yourself on ways people are building artificial reefs. This is done the world round and is proven to help marine life. The navy just adds the step of getting an real world fire exercise out of it.
Sunken ship can serve as underwater marine habitat!
Y’all believe everything y’all read?
There are hundreds of articles about ships purposely sunk to build marine habitats. From all over the spectrum of sources. So pull your head out and look around.
No wonder fish are full of heavy metals
Why can't this be recycled???
rather than just polluting the waters!!!!!
It’s not pollution
The sea life benefit from it
Gotta Love The Navy's LCS's! Great big jet-skis which would be more appropriately named the "YUGO of the Seven Seas."
In the early 1950's, the US NAVY was smart enough to mothball their ships way up a river that was close to me. It was really cool to drive by them on the way to a fun day, and see all that gray floating close to shore. They don't seem to be smart enough to do that now. Sinking them is a waste of a lot of steel, in my humble opinion. And you never know when 1/2 your fleet will be bombed into oblivion as they were somewhere in Hawaii once upon a crime ...
If you'll do a bit of research on the Reserve Fleet and how it works I'll be glad to trade comments. In the mean time you sound like a fool
They still have a lot of ships mothballed. The sinking gives a chance for live fire exercise.. they also do less exciting sinkings to form artificial reefs. I don't think the later are combat ships tho.
They create training exercises and reefs for marine life, not "stupid" at all.
Things that aren’t used go to pieces even faster than when they are used.
@@ajobdunwell2585 the US Navy has dramatically reduced it's stock of Mothball fleet. Do a Google search for locations of these storage location. Then use Google Earth and look at them.
Secondly, The Navy has Reef-Exed ships. It is extreamly expensive to do so. The Oriskany wood deck covering cost several million dollors to clear EPA mandated hazardous material. The reason
this particular ship needed the deck removal was that it was saturated with PCBs. For a sink-Ex the requirements are considerably less. The Oriskany had to have all asbestos removed for the same reason.
In the last several decades the Navy hasn't even tried to Reef-Ex any other ship, this applies to All ships even cargo ships.
It is much cheaper to sink a ship then to scrap it for metal and parts!😮
It's much better also as far as I'm concerned!!!
There are 2 things about this. 1) it shows the crews how hard it is to sink their ships and 2) shows how hard it is for the weapons to sink other ships so they better shoot straight.
They are empty, no fuel, no explosives, so of course they hard to sink.
Also a manned ship would be a moving Target and it would be fighting back!!!
@@gilbertnadeau7181 The fuel and bombs are in armored places on the ship and they won't go off anyway from being hit by missiles and bombs!!!
@Kirk Kirkland, that is a bit of bullshit. Many examples of ships who's magazines have blown up after the ship took hits.
Can't salvage all that metal to reuse for other shit?
I went aboard the USS Racine in 1974 for an Amtrac landing exercise off Camp Lejeune. I must be getting old. We are all "going down". Some sooner than others.
Not going to be an artificial reef at 15,000 feet.😅 Hardly a living thing at that depth.
Is a wonderful experience to see all of these equipment Commision or Decommission! No matter what is always a great experience. Thanks!!!
I served aboard Flint (AE-32) and Gray (FF-1054). Both went for flatware and razorblades in TX.
I was on they Grey, I'm going to have to quit watching these videos, they're depressing the shit of me!😢
Haven't heard the name of the USS Flint in a long time as I was quite familiar with that ship. I was on the USS Mount Hood (AE-29) it's sister ship as some of my A school classmates went to the Flint. My son is currently on the USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) in Jacksonville, FL and his twin sister is on the USS Harry Truman (CVN-75) Norfolk, VA. My son gave me a tour of his ship fairly recently and it was quite an enjoyable experience. Have yet to tour my daughter's ship as its been in the yards for awhile and then was on deployment for almost 10 months last year, hopefully this year I'll get that tour.
@@michaelb.8953 Michael, was Mount Hood an East Coast ship? I'm about ten miles from the tidal area of the ex-NWS Concord, now run by the army. Flint was out of Concord. All the AEs went to MSC. Flint was scrapped about ten years back in south TX.
@@johnpritchard5410 Mount Hood was home ported out of Concord, CA and scraped in Texas in 2012.
I'm glad that mine is on the bottom of the ocean!!! USS BADGER FF 1071!!!
I AM REALLY BOTH PISSED AND SCARED
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USS Constitution doesn't "move around the country" except to flip it around every year so it weathers evenly... Other than that, it's permanently in Boston.
True. I've never heard that before lol
Its true I've lived in the area for years. They take it out about 8 miles just outside the harbor turn it around and return. I've been on it back in the 70,s. The lower deck were the cannons are is about 5 1/2 ft. High. People were so small back then. Most avg men stood 5 ft tall in the 1800,s. Must of been the same in the 1700,s. Boat was called iron sides because it was covered in copper sheeting over the white oak and the cannon balls would bounce off it
Crew members are warriors and warriors are a special breed. The men and women under command are a special piece of the whole. Each sailor warrior needs to polish their skills to maintain the edge required of a part of a team. The team is only as strong as it’s weakest part. Each warrior must no only sharpen their edge but the edge of fellow warriors. The cook is first a warrior and second a cook. The sonar operator is a warrior first and always, even when scrubbing a toilet! No one is less a member of the whole no matter the task assigned! When a warrior first and always the task assigned is secondary but no less significant. When the toilet doesn’t work the warrior who’s job is to fix toilets becomes a significantly important warrior!
When trained to be a warrior first and always a warrior they are no matter what task they are assigned. No one is any more or less important than the next, just a different task! A warrior is trained to be a fighter first and always. Their task is to be the best warrior they can be. One of the missions of a warrior is to master whatever task assigned. The ship’s clergyman is every bit the warrior as the sailor who’s job is running a weapon system. You see, being a warrior and maintaining a warrior mind set is simple, be the best you can be no matter what you are doing! The warrior mindset is not just an attribute of a combatant, it’s a mindset that transcends all tasks. You can be an expert in any assignment but if not a warrior first and always, your expertise and expert qualifications will fail to rise when it’s needed. It’s the warrior in your heart that will take through the storm and survive as well as assure the survival of all the warriors you fight with! Being a warrior is a mindset that applies to all and all a warrior may be assigned to do! Serve, sacrifice, fight with all you are, only scratches the surface of a true warrior. A warriors heart is the driving force each warrior reaches into when the going gets tough! The warrior gets going!
The training benefit from the SINKEX exercises are invaluable to our Navy crews.
Was feeling bad my ship was sold for scrap and a buddy pulled up pictures of his ship being shot to pieces, RIP FID
My first ship ( LST 1189) was given to Chile, then scrapped due to damage. My second ship ( BB 63 ) now sits in Pearl Harbor. Gotta love how he said LSTs were heavely armored. LOL
I'd much rather have my ship on the bottom then made into razor blades!!!
She will always be there!!!
@@samuelschick8813 How lucky to have been on the Mighty Mo!!
That would have been a fantastic experience!!!
It's to bad they still aren't sailing the oceans!!!
My 3rd ship, USS Kinkaid DD 965, was used as a target in 2004. I toured USS Constitution in 2001 and USS Wisconsin in 2003.
I'm just love these kind of movie's 😊
My ship the USS BADGER FF 1071 ended up being a target ship and I'm glad it's on the bottom of the ocean instead of being scraped!!!
GO NAVY!!!!
I'd love to work at a dry dock.
I'd love to be back in the Navy but they won't take a 63 year old man!!!
Sometimes they sell them to lesser nations.
we can build ships, and but we cant build housing for the people who paid for them
Why can't this be recycled???
Did you not watch the full thing? Recycle when its worthwhile and when its not use the hulls for helping build artificial reefs after they get gutted, cleaned and towed out. And of course sunk. Both ways are getting some good out of it.
No one asking to us that, why the ruining maritime nature, creature,and ruining the balance of salt water...
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They sink them with the gun turrets still on board? Seems wasteful but I'm sure there's a reason.
Saddens me they couldn't save the Kitty Hawk. Would of made a great floating museum.
I don't understand why they sync these ships why can't they just reuse the metal for new ships
That’s easy!. They own the money and the power to do so
Why can’t they recycle them ?
Huh ? Look at all that scap they could build something else out of .
the cost of wasting the steel is reason enough that they should recycle the ships rather than use them as target practice.
They wasted more than steel. People are homeless. They could have turned that into a shelter
@@drekelley2352 Giving people housing won't make them responsible citizens.
Where are the green people when you need them?
@@jimgiordano3613 At trans rights demonstrations being green isn't that cool anymore
@@jimgiordano3613 Fisherman pollute the waters more than any of these ships.
For combat training it might make sense to destroy old navy ships wich are out of order. But I wanna make sure that this is a heavy kind of pollution and that's not okay!
How they guard that 90th parallel doe
Chill with the music bro
Why am I sitting here feeling sorry for a ship being fired upon while defenseless? 😅
What about the brave sailors&crew🌝
Why does he talk so slow
I think he has a harelip
He's a computer.
@@gilbertnadeau7181 R2, D2 or C-3PO
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YEAH SHOW THE PIRATE SHIP BUT NOT THE SINKING MOMENT YEAH YEAH 15.00 MINUTE VIDEO YEAH GREAT!
I'd like to see the metal recycled an create other target that mimick vessel the most inexpensive way,
Кто может испугать такую страну с таким народом !?🙂☝
Such a waste of resources😟
Don’t these guys recycle?
We still could be using the battleships that we have and they are almost a hundred years old!!!
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Cool!
Why doesn't the Navy sell its 2nd hand ships to poor countries They could get paid for them , then goto war with the new owner and sink it anyway LOL!!!!! Crane Ops get paid REAL good money !!!
We do sell or lease ships that are still seaworthy or capable of serving. Many like the LST in the video are just to worn out for anyone to want.
The video stated that all these ships are too far gone to repair. Pay attention
Sirvio tantos años a su país solo para terminar así, eso está muy mal. Es un crimen grave contaminar el océano, por qué no los reciclan?.
The irony here is, our government provides more homes for the fishes than they do to it's peoples.
sick minds
Selling for scrap would make more sense. Am sure America has many that can be trusted to scrap them
Tha’s for the good of the planet 🤡🤪
It actually is.
Stop pollution....
Do you take a bus daily?,,if not you're probably driving around with emissions coming from your car
Go and ask your father who is your real papa
They care more about the ship than everyday Americans.
To be fair, that ship has done, and is capable of far more than everyday Americans.
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Why not recycle???
Most are, very few are used for targets or reef duty.
You wanna volunteer?
dunno what they pay those divers.... but aint enough
Australia has a Air force??? Wtf??? Lol
Let's fill the ocean with our junk..? I know it's big, but....
It's actually proven to help revitalize coral reefs
What a waste of resources. Just sink the damn vessels,open the seacocks and let the ship sink along with help from a submarine
Awesome
I did not see the Zumwalt as a target practice.....a disappointment..
These background sounds are a turnoff, gave up after 0:47
Why wouldn't they dump them there? They have trash in space, trash in the ground, why not dump it somewhere where you can't see. It's the same thing as sweeping it under the carpet.
Why would they sink these ships so deep??? They should sink them in sallow water so divers can enjoy them!!!
Well shite, I hated to see this! I was on the Racine, I never knew she was used in a sink-ex, she was a great ship! This blows! 😢
A lot of positive comes from this.❤
Better than being turned into razor blades!!!
Why can't the US sell navy ships who are out of duty to nations who wanna take control on pirates like Somalia?
I''m not an Expert, but it just seems like a Waste of Time and Money to Build a War Vessel that won't last long enough to make it to the 80-100 Military Service Year, before being Scrapped.
Uss Connecticut hit a big rock in South China Sea ..ha ha, 😄😄
Sorry, but it's not scary. It's good for training.
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The military will only show the breaking up of the hull not the actual removing the electronics. Do some research and your reporting will be believable..
This is sooooooooooo fluctup!
I could never understand why ships would be sunk instead of scrapped and reused...seems like such a waste
Instead of sinking these ships, why not recycle the metals and save our resources for other things. So much waste of steel and iron and other metals.
" money down the drain "
how much money can we waste?
Did you even listen?😮
Wow they piss away your tax money this is how they keep begging for more the employees and their military industrial complex
They can care less about the fishes. They are putting a lot of pollution in the ocean with those ships sinking. I bet it's a lot of oil gas, antifreeze, and whatever other fluids that can be stuck with the ship.
Do you know for certain or is it some BS guess? My understanding is they strip the ship which includes draining it of all fluids and then towed into position for target practice.
@@MrAkaacer it’s a bs guess. they drain the ships of all fluids then when the ship is sunk in a predetermined location so it can act as an artificial reef which is good for the marine wildlife.
This is exactly what came to my mind. Why all this pollution and sea life destruction
All of the ships are cleaned of petroleum products, toxins prior to sinking. Additionally, the military has a third party group inspect each prior to skinking
@Francis Hoang you can't get rid of absolutely all of the fluids and left over chemicals on a ship like that it next to impossible.
Basically they spew tons of toxic lead ammo and attack and sink ships covered in tons of tox paint! Also they don't seem to do a very good job of sinking ship either! The way they did the barge was cool!
Hay que ser bien WOM para no Reutilizar el Acero
Not good for the sea life😢
Why not they make excellent habitat for marine life
Wrong!!
Bermuda triangle
jumbled up mess.... what a waste of 15 minutes
I’m still shocked that we invite China to participate in RIMPAC ? I want peace with China but it’s clear it’s not going to happen anytime soon with their threats to us about Taiwan but we still invite them to the exercise?
Its a political thing. 1st its an olive branch to keep relations and dialog going. 2nd its a big intimidating warning to not play stupid games for stupid prizes. Thats my view anyway. Oh and while they see our skill, doctrine and fire power, we get a peek at theirs. Nobody wants to come and look incompetent in front of all the the different navys afterall.
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What a waste of money all the way around. Criminal and wasteful.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
@@gilbertnadeau7181 we are 31 TRILLION in debt you fool.
Shut up
What a waste to sink them why not cut them up in this country and melt them down put people in this country to work and build new ship's just like they do cars