Kamikaze Attack ~ USS John Burke

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Kamikaze Attack ~ USS John Burke

Postby kham » Sun Apr 02, 2017 7:26 pm

Kamikaze Attack ~ USS John Burke short combat camera clip

Ammunition ship, camera man was watching another one at the time. This doesn't have a happy ending :shock:
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Re: Kamikaze Attack ~ USS John Burke

Postby Mynock » Sun Apr 02, 2017 10:05 pm

Damn.......like a small nuke going off. Only plus side is nobody on board felt a thing,.....RIP :(
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Re: Kamikaze Attack ~ USS John Burke

Postby kham » Sun Apr 02, 2017 10:23 pm

Yeah. it was probably way bigger than the scale testing they did for Trinity too. Looked almost exactly like Baker, really
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Re: Kamikaze Attack ~ USS John Burke

Postby pt200386 » Mon Apr 03, 2017 8:28 am

Wilson Cloud and everything, wow. Makes sense when you figure that an ammunition ship would probably have several thousand tons of high explosive on board (Baker was a little over 20 KT if I remember).
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