Sinking A Navy Frigate With Missiles And Torpedoes - SINKEX Sinking Exercise
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2016
- Aerial video of the sinking exercise (SINKEX) of the decommissioned USS Thach (FFG 43) during Rim of the Pacific 2016. The decommissioned ship is fired at with missiles and torpedoes until they sink.
The Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Thach was decommissioned after more than 29 years of naval service in year 2013.
SINKEX is live fire training exercises conducted by the U.S. Navy to practice gunnery, torpedo accuracy, and missile drills on decommissioned Naval Warships. It gives the U.S. Navy the opportunity to practice on live targets, using real ammunition, and observing the results.
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For anyone that didn't read the article on this.
Thach absorbed an enormous amount of punishment, starting with a Harpoon missile launched by a South Korean submarine, the ROKS Lee Eokgi. Next, the Australian frigate HMAS Ballarat launched another Harpoon, and an Australian SH-60S helicopter shot it with a Hellfire missile. U.S. maritime patrol aircraft then hit it with Harpoon and Maverick missiles.
But Thach wasn't done. The cruiser USS Princeton hit it with yet another Harpoon missile, and an American SH-60S Navy chopper hit it with more Hellfires. US Navy F/A-18 Hornets lobbed a 2,000 pound Mk. 84 bomb at it, and a US Air Force B-52 bomber dropped a GBU-12 Paveway laser guided 500 pound bomb on it. A U.S. Navy submarine got into the action, striking it with a Mk. 48 torpedo. Thach was hit with nearly five thousand pounds of high explosive, plus unspent rocket fuel and yet held out for nearly 12 hours. How did it survive so long? Good warship design, which has improved considerably since the days of World War II.
Bad weapon, y should see Iran Noor missiles n hoot torpedoes
I guess Ahmed is form Iran so you cant really blame him for thinking that Irans weapons are superior to any western designed weapons, since his goverment fills him with propaganda bullshit
Information for the warheads of those weapons isn't publicly available. Assuming they have the same size warheads as the Chinese and Russian weapons they are based on then they would be likely be less powerful than the Mk. 48 and Harpoon. That says nothing about the guidance systems and and hit probability. The Hoot in particular has an advantage in raw speed. It is important to note that in this video the frigate is completely empty, meaning no combustibles and significantly less weight so it is sitting higher in the water. All compartments are likely sealed as well, so flooding will not spread easily.
INS Hanit was the victim of Nour btw launched by hezbollah, also don't forget the new upgraded Gadhir antiship missile and Valfajr torpedo as well. All documented in RUclips. Accuracy n prob? come on Iran is not that stupid.
Time to bring back the Shah.
That boat took a pounding. Fair play to the Yank designers and those that built her. Outstanding.
I wonder how many hits a gerald-ford carrier can take before sinking. Knowing that they upgraded it's armor and now use lots of divisions in it's hull to prevent the ship from sinking by torpedoes.
Silly - Well, if it's hypersonic missile hit in jet fuel/ordinance section....that would be about....ah.....one???
Erwin Schmidt Any ship, matter the country or make will most likely go down if it's hit in the ammo rack
USS Thach still strong enough to get our boys to safety after all that . Salute to all the US ship builders .
OMG… that was the Thatch????
Aw man. Poor oliver hazard perry class, shoulda made it a museum ship, would love to tour a relatively modern naval vessel
Yeah that should always be the first thought when thinking about decommissioned ships imho
My father served that ship, it was sad to see it go
Why would they give back to the tax payer when they can blow it up for no reason with more tax dollars
@@no_-j4627 I don’t think you understand how valuable an exercise like this is, most sailors will never have the opportunity to put their training into action until they have to be called upon to go to war.
@@dylanaoyagi3 well considering I served my country in a MOS that ACTUALLY goes to war I think I know a fuck load more about valuable exercises then you do. You don’t need to sink a multi million dollar ship to play “combat”
Look how it bends and flexes when it gets hit by the torpedoes. I've never seen anything like it. I can't imagine how powerful the torpedoes had to be to do that. Also, that ship is incredibly well built. I expected it to sink like a stone after all that damage it took, but it just kept on floating. I thought modern ships were weak and easy to sink, but it looks like they are as tough as battleships.
Half a ton of of explosive more powerful than TNT detonated underwater will do that.
The SINKEX I was involved in had a welded up hulk with extra partitions welded in so that it WOULDN'T sink straight away. They examined it afterwards to get usefull information which improves building methods etc.
That is because we put tons and tons of paint into that Ship!
also remember we are the sponge!
I served aboard the USS Reid FFG-30 before it was sold to Turkey. Nice to see how sturdy they really were.
That old girl went out with a bang, that's one tough ship. A proper way to send her to the waters of Valhalla.
Shiny and chrome.
blackjack and whores
where she can battle with the likes of HMS Hood, Bismark, Scharnhorst, Oklahoma, Yorktown, Hornet, Helana, Samuel B. Roberts, Hoel, Johnston and hundreds of others forever being wadded upon by Merchant Ships until the Ragnarok
She was my home for 4 years
Dam this ship is really well build
+ZIG ZAG
No. Ships are built much better.
Ships are surprisingly resistant to damage, especially once they get to this size. They just have so many compartments and redundancies they just take too long to actually fill with water.
Oliver Hazard Perry class Frigates are known for being really tough ships during the Gulf War one of our OHP Frigates hit a naval mine and shrugged it off, it would have sunk many other ships. USS Stark took to missile hits from an Iraqi Fighter in the 80's and went home under its own power. OHPs are no joke
Yet we are not updating the Perry's with ESSM's even though there are designs for that and our allies are dong similar things with the OHP's we sold or gifted them. What would a Mk 48 ADCAP do to an LCS?
Joe M
yup. Perry's should at least be put in the Naval reserve in case we need solid escorts
Attached to FFG-55 for 4 years in late 80s. Cool to watch for training. Sad to watch because the Elrod is gone as well and was my home for 4 years.
USS Aubrey Fitch FFG-34 1985-1988 SC-02 Division Radio Central, these were great ships indeed!
Always my favorite ship to unrep. Watching them pull away launching from 13 knots to about 40 in as long as it takes to count it out. Just awesome.
Got a tour on this ship when I was a kid, and played it numerous times on Naval Warfare Simulation games. I always thought it was a damn good little ship. It brought a lot to the table. 30 SM-1, 4 Harpoon, 6 torpedoes, 2 helicopters, 76mm cannon, all steel construction, and a CWIS on the tail. Yep, a damn good little ship.
FFG's have aluminum from the main deck up
yeah 6 torps... those beauties
yeah forgot the twin 25 mm guns. . grenade launchers... manned 16 mm ....
USS Thach, it took 12 hours to sink you. May you rest in peace.
Very misleading title as no actual "sinking" takes place. Should read "Decommissioned Navy ship hit by missiles and torpedoes and stays afloat."
It did sink, just took about 12 hours. I'm sure you would be much less interested in that. This is just a concise view showing the testing of guided missiles and displaying their effectiveness against a frigate.
The OHPs are tough little ships. Tougher than they had any right to be.
Yes sir
Very disappointed
That was without sailors trying to keep it afloat. With them and good weather it would have made to port imho.
Should of been named the USS Honeybadger
They certainly did come at her, bro.
Naval weapons manufacturers no doubt gained some very valuable data points from SINKEX.
electron - dat a waste and dat a shame combo.........
And to think all our ships are made this way or better, God Bless America baby.
Maybe not the LCS.
I hope all your torpedoes and missiles are the same shit. God bless the American gunsmiths
The only reason we can read your dumb comment is because of an american company RUclips, being broadcast on the Internet Invented by the US. Get a clue jackass
Scotty says: I can't give you anymore power Captain!
Вот он Русский военный корабль😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nice. This video is Way Better than what was shown when they sunk USS Reeves CG 24..
That thing put up one hell of a fight. Design and metallurgy are only getting better.
Now consider if she had been manned. Damage Control teams along with Hull Techs would be
making repairs while
other crew and Fire Control would be returning fire with the bridge crew maneuvering the ship. I would hope that would be the actual scenario in combat at sea. The NAVY does it all, and DOES IT ALL AT ONCE! 👍🏻🇺🇸
Yeah your right, but that TT hit would have probably injured 100+ sailors with broken bones, backs, fractures, head injuries and many deaths also !! The ship would be combat ineffective ! Semper Fi
oh my god. I had no idea these things were so robust. You can see the whole superstructure twist like the tacoma narrows bridge and it just takes it like a champ. . . not to mention the widespread buckling in the stern
The first few seconds of the video showing the entire hull of the ship flexing as its hit is absolutely incredible. The fact that it didnt sink then is amazing.👊
Seriously glad I sped up that video..
The last country to have a go at the poor ship was Italy... they sent in the human missile, captain Francesco Schettino... the ship was doomed...
That's a brilliant joke dude, LOL
LOL?!
People died nastily.
Was his girlfriend with him on the bridge? Did she push the firing button?
Incredible just how much damage they can take and stay perfectly afloat!!! My ship was also sunk like this and they never did see her go down because she lasted into the night!!
USS BADGER FF 1071
My first ship was the USS Connole (FF-1056). I do miss those days -
Thanks to my Uncle. I did a tiger cruise on this ship. From Hawaii to San Diego. It was an awesome experience.
A valuable record. Thanks for posting.
Украинцы думали, что это русский военный корабль, а в итоге нет)
Wtf. That ship is built really well. That's where our taxes go. And I'm happy about that.
+DGAFSS Legend I know that.
Modern warships are built incredibly stout, and it usually requires a torpedo or mine hit that snaps the keel for a ship to go down with any kind of speed.
Punching holes in it and filling it with water will give it enough time to potentially snap YOUR keel.
SAVikingSA But it took a surprisingly long time to even sink. And it took quite a few hits to do so
Keep in mind they were essentially shooting at a floating tin can had that ship had ammunition and fuel on board which it obviously would in a real world combat situation those bombs and torpedo's absolutely would have hit either or both and sent the ship to the bottom exponentially quicker or made it an oil burning death trap.
Captain Rhodes
That's true to an extent, but there's been a ton of ships during WWII and after that have taken rather nasty hits and survived.
I looked up uss Ford sinkage and this was my home for a while. I got tears in my eyes, Tenacious stands true!ffg 54.
US Ship builders should be very proud !!!
Building such strong ships !!!
I think we need to develop more powerful weapons, this older ship just walked it off like it were nothing
Obviously, they went through the checklist for Condition Z before disembarking. Strong ship.
I was stationed on the USS Aubrey Fitch FFG-34 85-88, these ships are tough, just look at the USS Stark FFG-31 hit by two Exocet missiles (only one exploded), the ship did not sink, lost 37 sailors though. Stark was our sister ship. Only two of the Perry class frigates were scrapped after decommissioning, the Aubrey Fitch and the Stark, the rest were sold to foreign navies or sunk like the Thach.
That was great to watch. Thank you
Великолепное судно!
Much better than ending as razors and nails in some asiatic breaking ground.
I worked on that ship when she was being built - sad sight for me!
Torpedoes carry much larger warheads than most missiles do, and thanks to the way in which the non-compressibility of water transmits blast waves, it means that hit-for-hit torpedoes can fuck up a surface vessel for harder than most conventional-tipped missiles could ever dream of.
Ruined a perfectly good fishing boat. Darn Navy.
Lel
It's not a fishing boat it's a destroyer
Noelle L I’m assuming you don’t know anything about this ship. It’s a frigate
.
@Craig Thomas | Fishing Boat with Phalanx aa gun?
@@speckkatze2724 yes of course there are to many flying fish around
Video games have lied to me. 2 shots at the most.
first time?
The flight deck ( or mound ) was amazing!
Imagine the kind of damage a battleship would do to this ship. A 9 gun broadside would devastate a frigate.
All that punishment, and at the end, still floating, nose bent in like a Disney Witch. The boys who built this stepchild need a commendation. Or at least a "Good on ya!"
I helped in the building of this ship. Remember when it went out on sea trials. Very clean ship
The ship had no fuel and ammo aboard probably. if it had: boom. big time boom.
Ship also wasn't armed with active anti-missile defense systems, anti-sub weapons and anti-air weapons which would have prevented most of those hits. It is always tit-for-tat on the what ifs.
Boom, Big Badda Boom
Not sure what impresses me more. The punch of those torpedoes, or how well the ship held up to the onslaught.
Awesome ship builders
Still floating !
отличное качество корабля , он непотопляем
Этот фрегат был абсолютно пустым (без топлива, вооружения и какой либо взрывчатки или горючего на борту).
I served on the Kauffman FFG-59 its almost painful to see one of her sisters abused this way. It is however, nice to know that she could take it.
Let's just never forget them mighty little Perry-class
There's no fuel or ammo to help blow it up.
Yes exactly. Let's face it, unless you hole the hull below the waterline, it's going to keep floating. But an actual live ship in combat, you'd have killed half the crew with those hits and the fuel and ammo would have caught fire and/or exploded, or more likely the ship's crew will have withdrawn the ship from the battle for repairs. This ship here is just a raft now, doesn't matter if the top of it is blown to pieces or a work of art.
And all the hatches are opened (preventing air-lock buoyancy).
yeah. let's look at what Granite missile does with whatever it hits then you feel the difference.
There's a hundred damn videos of this event, some as long as 20 minutes and not a single video shows anything more than any of the two minute videos and ZERO videos actually show the thing sink.
Served on the John L Hall (FFG-32) Proud of how tough they were.
I know that ship! Desron 8, I was on the Aubrey Fitch FFG-34 85-88 Radio Central.
The Perry Class were damn tough ships
Отличный пароход!!!
ух, янки жгут))) интересно было бы глянуть что было бы, если б этот пароход отстреливался))))
Просто после этого экипаж авианосца уволился бы, а пилоты самолетов оказались бы в психушке.
HAhh Ha ha hA. The entire military would have been confined to a mental institution. LOL
Russian salt fuels me
I was stationed onboard the USS Rentz. There were many times both the Rentz and Thach were both moored at pier 4 San Diego.
Incredibly built ship!
"СРАМОТА"(c)
Ты?
It should have been recycled, quality steel and toxic materials should not be at the bottom of the sea.
they clean these ships out fairly well, and while that is some fine steel, the fish love it, too!
hey! Those global steel prices won't prop themselves up! Have to create artificial scarcity somehow! So the steel industry's cronies in the pentagon make sure this scrap stays off the market..........PERMANENTLY. What a tragic waste of resources.
"Aluminum".
mallory1970 Yes I know it's low. That's why they are resorting to extreme measures like this. This ship was sunk very recently
The skin of the superstructure from the weatherdeck up was AL, the hull and most stuff inside was steel. As someone who spent time on that particular ship, including bringing her to the fleet, I was saddened, however I understand the time for all things past, and she was one of the last of her breed. With the exception of the USS Constitution (laid down in 1794, and still on the lists today) the US Navy is without Frigates or Destroyer Escorts for the first time in history.
Was a gorgeous looking ship.
Man !!!!! Those frigates are tough.
Good made America 😊
А потом он поднял флаг, протаранил авианосец, сбил антенной вертолёт и ушёл во Владивосток.
И во всем оказался виноват Путин.
В каюте запертый пьяный боцман орал "наверх вы товарищи все по местам , последний парад наступа-а-ет.
Врагу не сдается наш гордый корабль, пощады никто не жела-а-ет
Just give it to EXXON, they'll sink it...,
Wow, that ship can withstand hell of a beat
Good ship!!!
у наших попросили бы "Шквал", одного хватило бы, ну на крайняк "Калибром"
Прежде чем такое писать (такую ахинею), нужно хотя бы посмотреть на вес БЧ (тех и других). Этот фрегат был абсолютно пустым (без топлива, вооружения и какой-либо взрывчатки или горючего на борту). Одного бы не хватило. Цель состояла в том чтобы отработать по мишени несколькими видами вооружений (ибо не часто представляется возможность пострелять по реальному боевому кораблю).
@@ZuMi_WaLt И без команды и борьбы за живучесть, причём стоящий на месте а не в движении, и не огрызающийся из всего своего вооружения. Дурень, его бы вообще нереально было бы тогда уничтожить. Сам такую "ахинею" написал, эксперт диванный! Думай прежде чем написать, если есть чем думать!
@@OnderTorgov ещё один, упорышь....
@@OnderTorgov упоротое, какая борьба за живучесть, если взрывается боекомплект? Если половина (или большая часть) экипажа выведена из строя и/или убита? Каким образом движение бы спасло от управляемого самонаводящегося вооружения? Не, ну от какого-нибудь дерьма, вроде "Шквала", да - возможно. Но уж точно не от универсальных самонаводящихся (с возможностью повторной атаки, в случае потери цели) торпед Mark 48, с диапазоном в 40-50, а то и более км. От них спасения не жди...Для кого, "нереально"? Для лучшего в мире и в истории флота, не просто реально, а даже легко.
@@ZuMi_WaLt ruclips.net/video/lpGQqBSuCtA/видео.html
I guess recycling didn't make more sense?
Probably cheaper just to sink it and let it become an artifical reef.
No, it gives the Navy a chance to test weapons on an actual warship.....hence the target practice. Our allies also got a chance to test their weapons too.
+draco6543 Now that makes sense.
True, the Navy has to pay a ship breaker to scrap a ship, not like the days when they were auctioned off to the highest bidder. The exception are the last few carriers that were scrapped, the breakers were paid one penny to dismantle them but the government still had to pay the decontamination of the structure.
During SINKEX 2016, my first
ship the USS Crommelin FFG37
1989-92, was used for a target ship.
Sailed a lot of miles on her.
From Long Beach to the Gulf
Thailand Shri Lanka, Philippines,
Hong Kong to sailing thru
the Panama Canal during
deployment 90-91.
Sad to watch the video.
She was sunk in this same
area.
I served aboard the USS Aubrey Fitch FFG-34 NS Mayport FL, also sailed many miles on that ship, Panama Canal, crossed the equator, Middle East Force 3-86, Suez Canal, Straits of Hormuz, Pakistan, also crossed the Arctic Circle (87), participated in the Space Shuttle Challenger SAROP January 86.
Man I think these people really did a good job on this ship
Пригласили бы российский корабль на учения,он бы одной ракетой его утилизировал.)
Этот фрегат (мишень) был абсолютно пустым (без топлива, вооружения и какой либо взрывчатки или горючего на борту). Одной ракетой его не утилизируешь. Зачем приглашать убогие российские корыта на учения лучших флотов мира ?)
Made in US
And everybody knows when saying "America" the USA is being referenced. There is no country or even a continent just called America.
Ok, so where is there a country or continent just called "America"? "South America" does not equal "America", notice the word "South" at the beginning??? If people who live in Brazil are Brazilian what are people who live in the USA called? Come on you can do it..they are called "Americans"
I have been all over the world, 21 countries and counting, every continent except Antarctica, and EVERYONE calls the US "America" and people from there "Americans".
the rockets made in USA
I sailed with the Thach FFG-43, one tough old Frigate.
Great ship survivability.
А у нас в России подводные лодки сами тонут. Их даже бомбить не нужно.
Она утонула(с)
Потому, что в стране-тюрьме живут по понятиям. А в тюрьме анальная тема относится к вопросам иерархии и доминирования. Потому "дать в жопу Обаме" - это значит спросить:"Ты что, работаешь на Обаму?"
Andrew Oiler Пелевин писал нечто подобное:
"Большинство русских мужчин гомофобы из-за того, что в русском уме очень сильны метастазы криминального кодекса чести. Любой серьезный человек, чем бы он ни занимался, подсознательно примеривается к нарам и старается, чтобы в его послужном списке не было заметных нарушений тюремных табу, за которые придется расплачиваться задом. Поэтому жизнь русского мачо похожа на перманентный спиритический сеанс: пока тело купается в роскоши, душа мотает срок на зоне"
To be honest .... i am not very impressed, multiple rockets and a very, very expensive torpedo and the poor defenceless bugger is stil aflote ..... back to the drawing board if you ask me......... LOL
What normally kills warships is fire, this ship would have had all of it's fuel and lubricating oil removed, and a lot of the fixtures and fittings that might have added to the flames, I doubt there was much left aboard to burn..
"Afloat," not "aflote."
Yeah ... well you got my meaning ..right?!, english is not my native language so sometimes a little glitch sneaks in teacher..
it appeared to just be a air-dropped torpedo, so just a baby, but still, yah. the weapons guys have to feel a bit defeated...after all, compared to capital ships, this ship is just a baby too!
The whole idea was to keep it afloat as long as possible so the many nations that were involved in this live fire exercise could all get target practice on it.
A clip of it finally sinking would've been a nice touch, but still interesting.
tuff little ship!
Exocet n western torpedos is so weak
US Ships are so strong .
Fuck off Commie!
+ramairgto72 or rockets so weak )) Yes, non-commie?
They're trying to piss you off mate. Don't give them the satisfaction.
Dont you see the damage? xD
The Used The Weakest They Had.
Тупым не понять что они опозорились )
Тупой ты, поскольку не можешь понять что фрегат был абсолютно пустым (без вооружения, топлива и какого либо горючего или взрывчатки на борту). К тому же это фрегат класса Оливер Перри, которые отличались хорошей живучестью и прочностью.
the way that the ship flexed in the water after the blast really amplifies the weak stress points of the ship. Im willing to bet that at flank speed that flight deck had a nasty vibration.
FFG-7's were tough ships, I taught at the FFG-7 Land Based Test Site LM-2500 school at the Philly Shipyard, 4/82-8/83. Have never served on one, but did tours on SpruCans.
I went through GSM A And C school at Great Lakes in 81 went to Philly for firefighting school. Good times
I sailed with "Archie" USS Jack Williams (FFG-24) ... Wespac, Med, IO as an FC. An Honor to serve on her!
Damn that torpedo was brutal but that’s one tough old ship too
Holy ship !
Worked on some of her weapons interfaces when I was at Sperry Systems management in the late 70s about once a week I drink my morning coffee out of my Oliver Hazard Perry mug I got after her commissioning. A good ship made for a poorly conceived mission. I understand many were sold to Turkey.
She held up well. Impressed.
Damn even after all those hits it's still floating
Impressive. Every meat inside is purée but that boat is tough.
To HyperionGM, I agree to a degree, naval arms/fuel can cause the loss of a vessel like what occured to HMS Hood and USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor but its more rare than one might think. As HMS Barham capsized its aft magazine exploded as its ordinance broke loose and a similar fate awaited the Yamato as it exploded ot once but twice as she sank. Most main magazines are well below the waterline and its more often fire along with improper stowage of armaments which are a greater danger than enemy shells to warships.
Those OHPs were straight up tanks
Once SERVED... I am PROUD of Her!😊😊
Tough little ships the OHP class
Super ship
What I see how well made is that ship 🚢 well man made
RUclips is DESTROYING all of the good videos with WAY TO MANY ADS!!!
STOP WITH THE ADS!!!
So, when does it sink? Looked pretty sturdy to me.
Thank you to the USA 🇺🇸 ship builders and repair personnel have who maintain US Naval ships in America.
I helped building this ship from launching in the water to completion to sea trials we were exhausted . Many navel supervision signed off each step of the build.? Sad to see her leave our shipyard for the last time.