RE: Science Porn
January 30, 2015 at 8:36 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2015 at 9:03 pm by SteelCurtain.)
It was a Capabilities exercise (CAPEX). I am sitting on a pier in fatigues with Admirals, Commodores, and Commandants from Navies and Marine Corps all over the world, and the US Navy basically flopped its big dick on the beach to scare everyone. There was a Amphib, a cruiser, and a boomer, I believe it was the USS Pennsylvania, off the coast of North Carolina. They launched a fake amphibious assault on the beach. LCACs were bringing Abrams tanks ashore, gators were hitting the beach, Harriers and Hornets were "dropping" bombs (read: triggering explosives on the beach), the USS Cape St. George was sending 5" projectiles overhead onto the bomb range on Camp LeJeune. It was a sight to behold.
When all was said and done, the Pennsylvania birthed a Trident missile into the dusk and about 3 minutes later you just see 10 lightning bolts hit the ocean (with much fanfare) in pretty rapid succession. It was awesome in the most base sense.
When all was said and done, the Pennsylvania birthed a Trident missile into the dusk and about 3 minutes later you just see 10 lightning bolts hit the ocean (with much fanfare) in pretty rapid succession. It was awesome in the most base sense.
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