Or kill the keel.
Or bust the bow.
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So long as nobody loses their temper.
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We have always been at war with Oceania.
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Proof positive that this aircraft carrier can handle a near miss. Game over.
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Great, you passed the “our cannon scored a lucky hit on their powder room” and “it’s a good thing that bomb missed us” test. Now, to prove that you can actually fight for more than a few moments in an actual war, please take hits from and assess the survivability of the vessel for the following:
supercavitating torpedo such as the Shkval or HOOT
anti-ship missle such as the ATMACA or Klub
50 megajoule railgun
I’ll just let you pass on the patently non-survivable tests involving nuclear warheads, and assume that the 150 megaton autonomous torpedo that Russia wants everyone to think they’re developing will not be shadowing the US carrier groups. More creative approaches, such as semi-autonomous shaped-charge armed COTS drones programmed with evasion and flocking behaviors, sleeper agents in the crew, divers with cooling-intake clogging materials, unpatched Windows workstations, or Congress deciding the damn thing is too expensive to run and scrapping it after a life in reserve also get a pass.
These technological marvels are useless in a war of survival, they’re just big sticks the bully like to use to beat up the kids he doesn’t like. In a war against China, Russia, India, and probably several other countries that just don’t talk about their capabilities, they are big targets that would be taken out as soon as war started, probably in the opening move.
Was that a whole ass submarine at the epicenter of that blast? Way to take decommisioned stuff off the inventory Navy.
anything can be mapped to the Richter scale. It’s also logarithmic.
Magnitude -2: 50 lb child jumping from a high step
Magnitude 14: a certain asteroid impacting the earth 65 million years ago.
how big was this event? Large enough to shake an aircraft carrier and jostle its equipment around. Not large enough to sink it.
Larger earthquakes occur every day. Though this particular patch of sea is pretty quiet with the notable exception of man made quakes.
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Mr. Nimbus is going to be PISSED!
Going back 20 years or so…
The diamonds are manmade. Looks like 2-3 to test a new ship class.
While we’re talking units here, does anyone remember the conversion from fuckton to metric shitload? My wife threw out my old CRC Handbook…
You mean the US Navy song isn’t this yet?
Who do I complain to?
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Phone +1-202-685-0412 and ask for Tom or Jimmy.
Troy ounces or Adverdupois? 
I was trying to figure out a weigh to work that system into the comment.
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