I went on a minesweeper named after my village fox hunt with the scouts about 30 years ago. One of the other kids used the signal lamp to send an SOS to another ship. We got kicked off the bridge, someone had to hop on the radio and were left to play around with the foredeck massive gun. To my surprise it rotated far back enough to be able, as far as I recall, to shoot the bridge. Great day out, we had hamburgers and chips.
@OP you know about ships, could that gun actually have shot the bridge? Or is there some sort of lock to prevent it?
I can’t tell if this is just re-announcing the deal made in 2021 before Russia invaded to send two minehunters to Ukraine, or if this is an additional commitment, but it’s likely good news either way.
When I was doing my apprenticeship in the Dockyard in 2001 I worked on one of these ships.
I would not like to be in engineering when it gets shot at. My boss said he saw one get shot up years ago as a demonstration and he said the bullets just passed right through the side and created so much shrapnel from the engine fittings etc… that anyone in there would have been shredded.
The escape tunnels are also very narrow. I was 16 and skinny and it was tight for me. My boss was 40 and portly. He would have had no chance.
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I went on a minesweeper named after my village fox hunt with the scouts about 30 years ago. One of the other kids used the signal lamp to send an SOS to another ship. We got kicked off the bridge, someone had to hop on the radio and were left to play around with the foredeck massive gun. To my surprise it rotated far back enough to be able, as far as I recall, to shoot the bridge. Great day out, we had hamburgers and chips.
@OP you know about ships, could that gun actually have shot the bridge? Or is there some sort of lock to prevent it?
I can’t tell if this is just re-announcing the deal made in 2021 before Russia invaded to send two minehunters to Ukraine, or if this is an additional commitment, but it’s likely good news either way.
When I was doing my apprenticeship in the Dockyard in 2001 I worked on one of these ships.
I would not like to be in engineering when it gets shot at. My boss said he saw one get shot up years ago as a demonstration and he said the bullets just passed right through the side and created so much shrapnel from the engine fittings etc… that anyone in there would have been shredded.
The escape tunnels are also very narrow. I was 16 and skinny and it was tight for me. My boss was 40 and portly. He would have had no chance.