Iran Fires On And Sinks Its Own Warship

[DuncanDoenitz]

Training round, inert warhead?

[tdracer]

Originally Posted by DuncanDoenitz

Training round, inert warhead?

Possible... I vaguely recall a test of US anti-ship cruise missile about 40 years ago (Harpoon?). They were using an old, out of commission frigate as the target. The cruise missile hit with such force that the combination of the kinetic energy and residual jet fuel caused so much damage that the target ship sank - which wasn't supposed to happen.

[jolihokistix]

Only a few rusty dings in the 'official' photo, and some plywood structure that has fallen over.

[Imagegear]

How many more crew would this vessel carry normally than the 19 killed, was it being used as an observation platform by senior officers?

19 seems a lot to me, and how many may have been civvies/politico's? Seems like the deck must have been crowded.

IG

[Fareastdriver]

Maybe they were clearing out a few bottlenecks in the promotion ladder?

[jolihokistix]

Said to be the Noor: https://www.popularmechanics.com/mil...fire-accident/

PS Ignore the 'sink/sank' bit.

[Imagegear]

So it was carrying at least 34 not including any that were uninjured.

Looking at it, that's still a lot of people.

IG

[jolihokistix]

Spectators, top brass even?