Navy Testing

[Just a Guest]

Came across this article earlier today.... Curious what everyone's thoughts are about the testing? I fully support our military, but it can't be good for the marine life in that area. Glad they're not testing in the Gulf!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-ear ... und-bombs/




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[countrycorners]

We need to do stuff like this for a strong defense, as you know. The article doesn't say much about what that explosion would do to a submarine. China, Russia, North Korea, Iran etc etc aren't impressed by how nice we are to the fisheys.

[wacissaguy]

Doesn't mean they can't test farther offshore, when I was in the navy-what tests we went under were conducted 2 days fast sail out of San Diego-like 500 miles out.

[leonreno]

They were about 100 miles off shore, seems far enough, gets pretty deep over there just a little offshore.

[Mister Mullet]

All new ships are tested like this. It's part of the shakedown process. Modern torpedoes explode under the keel. Hence the need to do this test. Must have been a slow news day.