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Can military naval vessels easily survive any hurricane/typhoon? |
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| Feb20-13, 07:48 AM | #1 |
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Can military naval vessels easily survive any hurricane/typhoon?
This question is for any naval military folk out there . . .
Can naval vessels, from the largest aircraft carriers down to the smaller ships, easily survive severe ocean weather like hurricanes and typhoons? If so, do they even change their training schedules due to bad weather? |
| Feb20-13, 08:43 AM | #2 |
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Larger ones yes, smaller ones no. All might alter their schedules for most routine missions.
On a more basic level, weather is always a factor in any mission planning. |
| Feb20-13, 10:40 AM | #3 |
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Russ, thanks for the reply.
Also, can large oil tankers and container ships easily survive any type of hurricane or typhoon? For both types of ships it would seem that they would be in more danger when fully loaded -- is this true? |
| Feb20-13, 10:50 AM | #4 |
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Can military naval vessels easily survive any hurricane/typhoon?
I don't think there are any ships that can easily weather a large hurricane. There is always risk. This article might be of interest to you
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gcaptain...ve-hurricanes/ |
| Feb20-13, 12:36 PM | #5 |
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| Feb20-13, 01:53 PM | #7 |
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| Feb20-13, 01:59 PM | #8 |
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The short answer is dependent on the the actual type of vessel you have in mind. The Royal Navy, for example, requires a very high standard of construction for it's vessels. The ships are designed to withstand harsh conditions and operate effectively in such environments. At high readiness states (situations where the ships company ready the platform for combat or poor weather) each ship essentially becomes an air-tight steel box. No ship is unsinkable however, so any storm that is outside of the ships capabilities is likely to do significant damage. One of the best ways that warships are able to effectively operate in such conditions is the training of the men and women on-board. The Mechanical engineers study ship stability and hydro-dynamics so can calculate the risks of flooding and combat them with effective action when the situation arises. In the end, warships are ships. They are designed as floating platforms for waging war on and from the water. Ships can sink, and so can warships, but the crew training and the quality of construction give them improved odds over most civilian ships. |
| Feb20-13, 04:45 PM | #9 |
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| Feb20-13, 05:34 PM | #10 |
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Bad weather doesn't necessarily mean isolated storms. I know a retired navy officer who has a few stories about patrols around the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. Several times they were just stooging around for weeks at a time, waiting till the wind speed dropped to Force 10 (say 60 mph) so they could actually choose what direction THEY wanted to go, rather than the weather choosing for them.
They couldn't do anything of military significance in that weather, so having checked the warship was designed to heel over to 45 degrees without capsizing, they used to pass the time having steering competitions, to see who could maintain a steady 40 degrees for longest. |
| Feb21-13, 01:27 AM | #11 |
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It would be scary as hell to go through a typhoon in a tin can [destroyer]. |
| Feb21-13, 11:06 AM | #12 |
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Even if the ship can take it the people can't. While in the Navy we had a main engine failure while off the coast of SE Asia during a typhoon. For two days we strapped ourselves in with ropes on beds and had to crawl instead of walking to move around eating only crackers because no food could be cooked. We had only the power to keep the ship pointed into the waves but even so we rolled so far over the catwalks were touching the water.
We came very close to sinking. Nothing on the surface 'easily survives' a hurricane/typhoon. |
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