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The story of "Project Azorian" and the Hughes Glomar Explorer (the ship this crane was first used to construct) is a Wikipedia hole perfectly sized for a Saturday and some coffee. Well worth reading if you haven't before: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
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Where's the trouble here? This is just a 'did you know' story. If they wanted to stir up trouble they would be better off pointing out that the US industrial maritime capacity is actually terrible, and that China and Europe have far more capable equipment than the US does. Thanks to expensive and largely futile wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been a chronic under-investment in naval capacity, neglect of the m…
I wonder how many super yachts are actually destroyers.
None; modern super yachts are usually on the order of hundreds of tons, while destroyers displace nearly ten thousand tons.
Warships and yachts are totally different vessels, there is no place on the latter for sensors or weapons.
The story of "Project Azorian" and the Hughes Glomar Explorer (the ship this crane was first used to construct) is a Wikipedia hole perfectly sized for a Saturday and some coffee. Well worth reading if you haven't before: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
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None; modern super yachts are usually on the order of hundreds of tons, while destroyers displace nearly ten thousand tons.
Some super yachts are bigger than destroyers. The longest is 590 ft long and 13,136 tons. The biggest is 20,000 tons. The top ten are all bigger than 10,000 tons. Warships and yachts are totally different vessels, there is no place on the latter for sensors or weapons.