Argentine destroyer damaged as she leaves for international exercise

Wednesday, July 5th 2017 - 08:11 UTC

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Destroyer “La Argentina” was damaged when it rammed its bow against a jetty at the Punta Alta naval base while attempting to make it to the high seas. She is scheduled to join an international naval exercise in the Pacific and bring several helicopters on her return trip from Peru. Read full article

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Capt Rockhopper
This is what happens when you don't invest in your military and enable sufficient training and maintenance activities to be undertaken. However all navies are subject to human error and maintenance failures and incidents do occur no matter how good they are. They are always high profile and embarrassing. The skipper will no doubt face a Board of Inquiry.
Jul 05th, 2017 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse +2
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Stoker
“Furthermore when attempts to repair the damage with a welding equipment, a fire broke out.”
;-D
Jul 05th, 2017 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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golfcronie
When weldimg you take care to remove ALL combustable material away from the effected area, common sense really as steel melts but does not set on fire.
Jul 05th, 2017 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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gordo1
Let's leave it to Marti Llazo to make his comments - I'm sure he will be entertaining!
Jul 05th, 2017 - 04:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Zaphod Beeblebrox
Embarrassing and these things happen, but no report on whether the jetty was damaged. Did La Argentina damage a small piece of Argentina?
Jul 05th, 2017 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marti Llazo
The ship demonstrated classic argentine self-destructive tendencies. In fact that class of ship is going to be renamed from “destructor” to “autodestructor.”
Jul 05th, 2017 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse +4
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Rufus
Although it's only through the application of the finest Argentinamaths (on the INDEC scale) that a MEKO 360 qualifies as a destroyer in the first place.
I believe that the Nigerians refer to theirs as a frigate.
Jul 05th, 2017 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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golfcronie
The instructions must be in English and the pilot did not understand that “ reverse both ” means to go backwards, easy mistake really.
Jul 06th, 2017 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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The Voice
Does it roll over? Four short blasts from the Argies.
Jul 06th, 2017 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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