Sinking A Destroyer | Free Documentary 

I chuckled when he said that. The typical American in me came out.

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@@derekwood3189 the Submarines also check in but in AFK mode.

marineman2031 the subs are the last effort to bring it down. Although it really isn’t an effort for the subs and can’t be shown either way even if it did fire.

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😂 ha ha ha!!! Best comment I've seen this week!

I know right

@Aidda Any WW II battleship would make LASTING target for anything, but modern torpedoes - everything below 1000 pound bomb would be shrugged off.

That would be excercise in futility :D

Piotr Dudała get some decent sources before commenting.

The Bismarck would have given those attackers a hell of a beating, even with her dated technology. The Bismarck's gunnery and fire control was some of the best in the German Navy, and her armor was very thick.

Grey Jay one thing missiles don’t care about armor they’ll just go for the weak spots

Don't forget there army of lumberjacks

That's the benefit of NATO

Four of them are from the united states

Using sea sparrows they bought from the US. The ship also had harpoon missiles that are intended for anti-ship use, unlike the sea sparrow. The harpoons were also purchased from the US. And then they finished up with F/A-18s that they purchased from the UK second hand. The UK bought them from the US but actually wanted to update their aircraft since those are very outdated variants.

There may come a day when we desperately need them.

Those Rubber band guns are not accurate! Anyone remember them from the '30's? They shot rings of old inner tubes!

well it is the Canadian military soooo

They were sure to apologize afterwards.

Yea, I wondered why they left those opened. This was a high cost drill, you'd think they'd want to get the most out of it.

My guess it's to insure a steady sink to the bottom and to be fish friendly but still it's a destroyer that class of ships aren't designed to take a fight like larger classes it's designed to be quick, cheap, make heavy punches and be able to take some hits. But these days the Destroyer class is slowly turning into the MBT of ships.

@@noticedruid4985 you nailed it. "🐟 friendly"

Let alone a determined crew!

Your right, by that time the submarine would have finished her off.

So true

One iowa class shell .....done deal

@@Veraxu1227 did you just go and say they might beat a modern PC? You know PC stands for personal computer and those were like the size of a rather large server. ROFL And no they are not ubber modern computing devices they are in the military and running software from the 70s-90s. They can't be modern or they wouldn't be compatible with the rest of the military tech. Nice try tho.

The ship's electronics could be hardened against EMP and RF interference. That could be why it looks that way. Or maybe everything is from 1975 and they're praying ameicans save them if real conflict breaks out.

@@xXxcastenada I'll type it again... Military systems are as a rule old and ment for old hardware. If they were to run modern computing hardware it wouldn't be compatible with all of the other old systems. Also more modern hardware is much much more sensitive to things like EMP and other forms of interference. Smaller dye sizes means it takes less RF/EM power to interfere.

@@anonpers0n Modern intel and AMD chips are compatible with what is known as 386 or 486 standards. Meaning in theory they adhere to the same opcodes as ancient 80386/80486 intel CPUs. It makes them backwards compatible to a limited degree. Military systems could follow a similar trend. Given how defense contracts are prone towards making things as expensive as possible, rather than the opposite with trends following proprietary rather than open source software, dont expect much from military contractors who are typically protectionist, dysfunctional and bloated industries incapable of producing cutting edge technology.

@@Veraxu1227 No, they are not high-speed computers in the slightest...

You mean CIWS.

Robert Moore what we called it on my ship.

@@oldfucker68 its a nickname

@@nou-jn6uz I get that. I'm a Sailor

Next, they'll try the SeaJism. If that doesn't work, they can go with the ButtCrackPuffer.

the seawiz sounded like the sound of the modern warfare 2 minigun bullets. it was kind of sad lol

@@kyle18934 this is some old style editing

@@gamingthisera6339 yeah, it reminds me of some game play I saw back when mw2 was big

Its a documentary not a film! You watch it to gain info and not to get some cinematic stuff.

@@doktorsljukex4174 documentaries are supposed to be the real thing and if any simulation is used it's supposed to be mentioned. Clearly that did not happen.

All them ricochet flashes were identical lol

So bad lol ruined the video

lol and here i was wondering how they got bullets to keep impacting the exact same places :P

Some of the firing video was fake too. And I cracked up laughing when they said this could be the most powerful formation of ships on the seven seas. They obviously don't know much about their topic.

i am confused was it just the ship that was fake or was the whole thing fake?

Well if it's Chinese or russian it wouldn't do too well lol

@Allen Tompkins well, if you remember what the US Navy did to Iran in 88 when we kicked their asses 8-0 in a 9 hour long battle that at one point a ship commander told an Iranain commander he intended to sink his ship and they had ten minutes to abandon ship. He then sank it on the 11th minute 😆

@Allen Tompkins btw, a Russian destroyer? lol, now there is a joke. Russia is not what you think it is. In fact their navy is pretty much the second worst in the world behind Germany. Their weapons misfire constantly and we'll, they have to have tugs go where the navy goes. Even their newest frigates have to have tugs go with. Russian navy is zero threat.

@@johnstark4723 that's the last major naval engagement the US Navy had and it was humiliating for Iran XD

@@captainbroady Oh they have had plenty of major actions since, just not ship to ship

The whole point of this was to test non anti ship weapon platforms on a ship.... They already know anti SHIP systems work.....

@@devonm5037 are you really defending the canadian navy? lol this was lame and very disappoointing haha they were supposed to use a torpedo from the sub as well before it "sank", they already know torpedoes work since like ww2 right? lol

@@cyborgdude2k4 no the torpedo was only to be used if the ship wasnt sinking. Did you ever watch the video lol.

@@devonm5037 yeah i did, the fake explosions from the on "board" cam was cringe as well. Canada doesn't really need a navy though, the big brother down south is all they need lol

@@cyborgdude2k4 alrighty then.

Canadian CF-18s are Canadian Air Force not Navy

Actually, CWIS having trouble locking is quite realistic - it probably saw multiple different, clustered targets.

@@piotrd.4850 BUT ITS THE YEAR 2020

Budrick3Gaming the difference?

The cwiss on us Navy ships just jam or never work for the whole damn tour.

Ironwood NF that’s why they get lubricated with burger grease . “FOR MAXIUM EFFECTIVENESS,THE AMERICAN WAY”

Best for her to go as a reef than to be razor bladed

its an exercise to test their weapons on that ship..since they are not used in real war. this is for research purpose...if your not from the military you woudn't understand why they did not used an anti-ship missile

Do you mean a ardar-5?

@@qwerrtywerty5705 don't know where you got that idea from. The US does sink-x's and uses real weapons including anti-ship missiles. I spent the 1980s in the US Navy

@@joecombs7468 thats in the 80's..in the video its an exercise and weapon testing..unless its an enemy and its a real battle then anti ship missile will be used...what if by chance the anti ship missile is being reloaded then upper deck weapons will be used whats the used of that machine guns if you rely only on missiles

A harpoon missile is to costly for an exercise as small as this.

Un armed and not moving.

Oh wow I'm sure you could do better. Huh?

Yes, just give me a multi million dollar plane, smart bombs and guided missiles. And yes I could do better.

The Vulcan is hard to aim, and the ccip isnt the best on the c.

It’s not easy

Nobody has beef with Canada

culd not aggre more

Of course it's going to be inaccurate. Do you really want your enemies learning how to sink a ship from a RU-vid video?

I dont care i just want to past the ime at lockdown

Ah too late

Thanks for your services

Drean WW2 Battleships were formidable opponents for their time, but compared to modern technology they wouldn’t stand a chance. Why have so many guns and get up close to your opponent when you can sink them with a missile 200+ Ks away.

Anti ship missiles would like to have a word with you

Are you listening or not??? Theyll not use missiles

With all that toxic material used to make these ships?

Pietro Jenkins ~ They mentioned in the beginning that all toxic materials had been removed.

Pietro Jenkins- They mentioned in the beginning that all toxic materials had been removed.

@Kully you could always weld some steel to a hull on anything. I was speaking in terms of it wouldn't have so easy to sink her if she was crewed and functioning. I agree it's much better than scrap but they made it sound like it would be impossible to sink.

@@briankornau1294 yeah, put a full crew on a ship that's boutta get curb stomped

@@byronpratt9697 destroyers are designed as a defense mechanism making her more vulnerable to attack does skew data.

Kully Killy, unless the armor was examined after the exercise to see how it held up, it had no bearing on this exercise. Obviously the missile fired did some damage, but considering that it hit an empty ship above the waterline, it most certainly didn’t sink the ship. And as the ship had also been entirely gutted before the exercise, there wasn’t anything left that could really burn either. The real damage came from the 5” and 3” guns that put numerous holes in her at the waterline. With all those hatches removed and left wide open, she didn’t have a chance. But the exercise proved absolutely NOTHING. They would’ve gotten the same results from an old barge. At the beginning they talked about how hard these ships would be to sink because they’ve got so many compartments. It doesn’t matter how many compartments there are if all the hatches are left open. So the exercise was a complete waste of time and money. It proved nothing. If you really want to see how well a ship can hold up, close all those hatches, give it power so her pumps can run, and bring all her defensive weapons on line so she can maneuver AND COUNTER the incoming threats. The Sea Sparrow missile might have been shot out of the air by CIWS, and hitting a ship that’s moving with guns isn’t nearly as easy as hitting one at anchor. Without a doubt, the submarine stood the best chance of causing any real damage. I’ve yet to see a Sinkex yet that actually proved a thing ... other than a floating object will sink if you put holes in it that allow the water to enter.

@@mudman6156 the sub also had the heaviest weapons but why where American ships at standby for the possibility of a failed Canadian exercise that's the question lol. Did the Canadians not believe jets and several of the sister ships could put a dent in her when she was a ghost ship. Idk how to feel about the exercise kinda seems like the ship wanted to have a fighting chance. I would be without a doubt certain the ship would want to be taken down and sunk trying to defend her carrier

It's not a battleship 🙄 fool, pay attention

thata not the name of the ship you extra chromosome

it's called regina....inbred

@@hateithere1017 dude lol he didn't provoke you at all. why so hostile? i dont get people like that . It doesnt make any since at all.

@@johnstark4723 dude lol he didn't provoke you at all. why so hostile? i dont get people like that . It doesnt make any since at all.

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Oh wow.. why aren't you in the military running training exercises

Lol we pay for those so

Wow!

We're not even sure if there actually were no fish, whales, seals, or dolphins near the ship when it exploded.

Oh yeah, well what about all the cockaroaches in the galley. Poor bastards, for them it musta been like the fall of Atlantis.

Maybe that sent them back to the Drydock, but neither one was in danger of sinking.

@@knightlife98 Need a Big Container Ship lol

@@knightlife98 Well ... He was referring to the Helge Ingstad (A Norwegian Fregate) That was rammed by a civilian cargo carrier and sank ;) You can google it ;)

@@t3m3lkov85 Wow...!!! Yeah, I'm going to look into that, for sure. Thanks!

@@knightlife98 Yeah, that was quite an emberassment. She was a brand new state of the art warship, yet somehow due to dense fog wasn't able to see the cargo ship while sailing in a fjord, got rammed, and sunk to the bottom of the fjord. Norway's ego must have gotten pretty bruised that day...

@Pablitoes ツ You ruin the damn joke

KAMIKAZEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was designed around commercial breaks.

could you sink that ship

@@brandonhuala2747 With the Royal Navy's arsenal at my fingertips? I should hope so.

Michael Hunting I think it was the Utah that had to be sunk with torpedos after 2 nukes.

@@americanseal7683 It was Nevada. And the Iowa used it for target practice for it's 16" guns and STILL couldn't sink it. That's when they broke out the torpedoes, lol. several torpedoes and bombs? No problem! We'll just refloat it, modernize it, and fight a war with it! Then, 2 nukes, for one of which it was the target, and a bunch of 16" shells couldn't sink it- so they had to resort to torpedoes. That's a well built battleship! From all reports, if it weren't glowing in the dark after the nukes- they could have fired up the boilers and sailed it back to Pearl, lol. Check out The History Guy's video on it- it's a hell of a story!

seriously, and they were hitting the heavily armored parts of the deck... so stupid

it just shows the capabilities of the canadian navy... ship to air missiles to sink a ship? really?? and 20mm rounds they’ll just bounce off the hull

CAG Hotshot what do you mean many didn’t perform as designed. A 20mm would never sink a ship unless the ship is made of wood. The missile had a misfire and then worked fine after. The sub never got to test it’s torpedo but it showed a video of how a ship gets sinked by a torpedo. The only thing I saw was one of the cannons not firing and then the cwis not locking on the ship. But the cwis was never designed to aim for ship. It was for missiles, and planes. Not a ship. That’s why they had to manually control it. Either way the missile did its job and the 76 as well. Everything else wasn’t ever gonna sink that shit. Even in the state it was in.

Even GM's rn lol

Agree. If you want to truly test the survivability of a warship, all the 'Z' hatches should be closed as they are under battle stations conditions.

Also, ballast the ship with environmentally friendly stuff. The video clearly states it was inherently unstable after preliminary modifications. Not a true test.

I would have liked to see USS New Jersey take a crack at it with her main battery.

I was the TAO aboard USS CURTS during the SINKEX. We were only allowed to use inert rounds, as to not sink the the ship immediately.

that's why they r Canadian loonies. just like their currency

yeah war director...what kind of dystopian shit is that

That’s about the level of fitness required to serve aboard a ship. There’s no real physical rigors on ship’s anymore since most everything is autonomous or far too great for individuals. That’s why it’s acceptable. In the digital age the private sector has much greater incentives versus the Navy. Therefore we can’t afford to turn away great, willing minds due to being a little overweight or physically out of shape.

@@likiliki93 And I understand that logic, however I see some problems with having such fat and physically undisciplined sailors. Physical fitness is important because it helps you stay mentally alert, for longer periods of time. Harsh training is also a crucible of humility and strength and discipline. And in the rare circumstance they go down, you can imagine why fitness would matter. Simply put, out-of-shape but brilliant soldiers, are inferior to in-shape brilliant soldiers.

Saxon Israel The minimum push-ups, sit-ups, and 1.5 mile run required to remain in the Navy is still much higher than a large majority of people in America are able to do. If we make it even harder, those brilliant minds are gone to the private sector. I understand what you’re saying, but I can’t explain how long of hours we sometimes work in the Navy along with the mental fatigue of just being isolated from everyone you care about. Also, physical fitness plays a very minimal role in an abandon ship situation. If we got sunk by a torpedo, everyone is dead no amount of strength can help you. If we run aground and sink, then land must be near! If we’re sinking, the life rafts automatically deploy. There’s just no slightly probable situations I can think of where physical fitness is going to play an important role in survival at sea. I’m probably wrong, but having served on multiple ships in my time in, (while being in great shape, btw), I’ve accepted that death is all that awaits if our ship is sunk in battle.

Saxon Israel by the way, I’m in no way disagreeing with you. I wish the standards were raised too. But many great sailors I’ve worked with and for have given me that answer and it makes sense. Even if I don’t like it either.

@@likiliki93 Yes sir I think you make fair points. I would suggest that the whole system needs to be reworked to make sure the men aren't overburdened. Fitness, although hard to muster up the will to get started, quickly relieves a lot of stress, depression, anxiety, and loneliness. Again, if it is so impractical to exercise sailors in fitness, which I agree it is, I think that means that the current system is flawed. Thank you for your insight.

Think about it practically, thousands of military personnel and a live vessel? Nobody could allow that, idiotic

And women spend thousand of dollars on SHOES. Shut up. Women make shitty leaders for a reason....no logic.

SirWes uh no mini guns make there own noise

Ok bud they did add fake gear noises but all guns make different noises when they shoot. It mite be because of the round, caliber, barrel, muzzle, angle, or condshion.

@@caramellatte4919 it might also be the spelling of the words.

Could have been an hour shorter

Now this... this is funny

@@m1a2abrams66 lmao

If they dont know how to take out other countrys military how do you expect them to protect us? Its not like theyre doing this for no reason theyre doing this so they can know how to protect us when wwIII happens because eventually it will. If you dont like where your taxes are going then move.

Vaporize? I wouldn't call it that 😂

Ok...you'd be slaving in a gulag if they weren't protecting your ass. Oh, that's right. You're a communist until someone takes your soy away, right????