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@peepeepoopoocahcah1 can one of you niggers explain to me how mines in a fucking BODY OF WATER are supposed to work
@graf @peepeepoopoocahcah1 Mines work by creating pockets of gas, which do not provide buoyancy to ships; hitting a mine would be like removing the section of mattress under your lower back while a fat girl is riding you. It's actually the same thing with torpedos: torpedos don't actually hit a ship, they explode underneath it, causing damage to the keel of the ship through its own weight.
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@christmasman @graf and here i just thought they blew shit up
@peepeepoopoocahcah1 @graf They do, limpet mines are a sort of shaped charge that'll magnetically latch to the hull and blow a massive hole inward, but the most effective damage is done by deforming the hull and cracking the keel along the bottom in a way that damage control teams can't do shit.
@christmasman @graf @peepeepoopoocahcah1 The mine or torpedo usually also shoots the ship out of the water then it lands back down on the pocket of empty space while the back and front of the boat land on solid water. more like breaking something over your knee but in reverse
@christmasman @graf @peepeepoopoocahcah1 might not work well on oil tankers since they are so large and have natural torpedo protection just because of the way they are built.
@Groomschild @graf @peepeepoopoocahcah1 Yeah, I think the more broad the surface on the bottom of the hull, the more evenly it can distribute the loss of buoyancy, but cracking and buckling of the outer hull can still cause ballast issues.