Harpoon anti-ship missile sinks ex-USS Durham

Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet

[MrPinenut]

This was hard to watch for those of us that sailed on her. The Lonely Bull was a good ship.

[bluess]

Looks like the 1st harpoon misses: comes in on the bow at 0.13 and passes down the starboard side before impacting the water, or just grazing the ship. At almost the same time, the 2nd missile comes in from port, followed by the 3rd at 0.15. Set playback to .25

[mikee]

Looks like a booster or something came out the back side of the ship after the first hit.

[saitokurihara]

Where is the giant fireball that engulfs the entire ship like shown on TV ?

[vindicator]

Still afloat. Bring us up to 1500m, then surface the ship and main the deck gun. Both ahead half!

[tinselanselmoe-cxfu]

that is a type 45 medium range interceptor missile with a mark 3e warhead launched at somali pirates in 1998
the vessel was either a idd2 or idd3a with the type 45 conversion kit yes

[rakeshmehra]

Will Taiwan be able to harpoon to stop Chinese navy if they invade

[_lean_caceres_]

I have the feeling that the Harpoon it's faster than Exocet, but the Exocet has a harder explosion

[spencergear]

Living in Durham I'm now scared of this

[hockeyguy]

What skipped across the water on the right hand side?

[Perkeletricksterservantofrher]

that was way too small to be harpoon and they even launched two of them ??

[sharad]

A single Brahmo missile should have created a tunnel wide enough for a truck to pass. Harpoon seems to have limited impact.

[MrMJmusicLover]

The Harpoon is way too forgiving compared to the Norwegian Anti ship missile.

[Sniperahead]

why is there shrapnel effects in the water at 0.13 before the missile hits?

[ScreamingElectron]

What's the deal with the detcord?

[crownvictoryfive]

Whats with the explosion before the missile hit? 13 sec in on the right side blowing out the back. Slow mo to see what i mean.

[mattross]

Is that it? 1.5million dollars just for that? For 1.5 it should be able to snap the whole thing in half and put it on the sea floor before enemy sailors can even strap on their life jackets! At this rate they’ll have the fires out and the ship welded back together before the deck is even flooded! Terrible.

[AllAmericanGuyExpert]

Bad title. I think it was 3 or 4 missiles.

[parrotbrand]

Difference between Harpoon and Exocets is that Harpoon sink decommissioned ships whereas Exocets sink operational enemy ships

[kowkunt]

No it did not
200 pounds of C - 4 took her to the bottom