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Maybe it's for defeating magnetic mines ?
Yeah, that must be it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12986537/video-british-royal-navy-ships-collide-vessel-bahrain.html
It's what smaller boats are made of. In this case it looks like the fiberglass is way too thin (to me).
Phloating Phlasher
01-20-2024, 10:57
Yeah its GPR.
Old saying about boats: "Glass is crass, but wood is good & steel is real"!:icon_lol:
Johnny P
01-20-2024, 11:41
Wasn't the airliner that lost it's door made of carbon fiber?
The Bangor is a mine sweeper and the fiberglass hull is, indeed, made to reduce the risk from magnetic mines.
Wasn't the airliner that lost it's door made of carbon fiber?
That was a Boeing 737 Max 9. AFAIK they are aluminum. The 787 is mostly carbon fiber.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/us/what-happened-alaska-airlines-flight-1282/index.html
Phloating Phlasher
01-20-2024, 01:29
Yes "sweepers" used to be wooden for the same reason.
barretcreek
01-22-2024, 05:38
North Sea born D/E subs don't have enough ferrous metal in them to shoe a horse from my understanding. Plastic hulls, aluminum engines with titanium crankshafts, etc. Maybe the cranks are steel, but that's it. Bit deadlier than the Pentagon wants to admit.
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