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Originally Posted by NatCh
That's actually fairly common practice, to use old ships to test naval munitions on. You can't really tell how a weapon will perform unless you actually use it.
The most remarkable thing to me is that they felt it needed to be reported on.
The footage of the explosion was pretty cool though -- broke it right in half!
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yes, I agree it's fairly common practice, even amongst allies...worryingly it "only" took one torpedo...and the speed of the destruction does not suggest many survivors would have the chance to get to any life-boats...etc...