Australian-Made Torpedo Sinks Retired U.S. Warship

[Wildcat]

Not HMAS Torrens Charles, she was sunk back in '99 in very similar fashion by an Australian sub, See here-

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vaImLvZbPw

Looking at the pic below, it appears the hull number has 3 numbers.

 

[ccheese]

Hmmmm. The video on Youtube I saw clearly showed the side number 53.
What was I looking at ???

Charles

 

[The Basket]

USS Fletcher.

Guided missile destroyer.

Decommisioned in 2004.

That is what the news said so don't blame me if i am wrong!

 

[Wildcat]

Hmmmm. The video on Youtube I saw clearly showed the side number 53.
What was I looking at ???

Charles

That would be the Torrens sinking Charles, they looked very similar except the Torrens didn't sink as fast.

 

[Gnomey]

Quite and incredible amount of damage that it can do!

 

[Matt308]

...especially for not even physically entering the vessel.

Almost got a job working for Honeywell on the Mk.48. Think about that often.

 

[RabidAlien]

Mk48's are biiiiiiiiiiig muthas. Slept on one or two in my day.

I saw the USS Winslow during a (very) brief search, and knew it wasn't that one. Bow is all wrong. And it wouldn't surprise me at all that the news didn't have actual footage, or it wasn't "good enough", so they just re-used an old clip from '99.

 

[<simon>]

Haha, us Aussies know how to make 'em!!

 

[Aussie1001]

It's good to see our military have finally got the balls to make their own stuff insted of buying it off everyone else.

 

[<simon>]

Haha, yes thats true!

Just think, in a few years we might start building our own fighters!!!