It was a retired warship hit with over 5,000 pounds of high explosives.
However the USS Thach, which was bombarded from the air, sea, and even underwater last Thursday during a missile-testing exercise, did not go down without a fight, taking 12 hours to finally sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
According to
Popular Mechanics, the ship was first hit with a harpoon missile from a South Korean submarine.
Next, the Australian frigate HMAS Ballarat launched another Harpoon, and an Australian SH-60S helicopter shot it with a Hellfire missile.
The US maritime patrol aircraft then hit it with Harpoon and Maverick missiles.
However that was merely the beginning.
The cruiser USS Princeton then hit it with yet another Harpoon missile, while an American SH-60S Navy chopper hit it with more Hellfires.
US Navy F/A-18 Hornets also dropped a 2,000 pound Mk. 84 bomb and a US Air Force B-52 bomber dropped a GBU-12 Paveway laser guided 500 pound bomb.
A US Navy submarine got into the action, striking it with a Mk. 48 torpedo.
Kolmea uutta puolalaiset kuitenkin suunnittelevat joten tuo 5kpl aivan ilmeisesti viittaa nykyiseen kalustoon.
