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Originally Posted by porwolf
Target practise?
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This sort of makes sense, if they want to do a "real world" test of their missiles to insure the target recognition software works properly.
This also assumes they are very stupid, because a barge with a wooden flight deck would have a very, very different radar signature.
If they want to use it for attack aircraft training, that's just as foolish because a USN CVN is the best protected ship in the fleet, and attacking a converted barge will be nothing like fighting the carrier's CAP, as well as AA missiles from DDG's and other escorts.
So...propaganda? Or maybe they figure they can use it to "stage" a incident and blame the US for it?
Being wood, it should burn easily, so I suspect sometime soon some SEAL team is going to have a bonfire. After all, converted barges have accidents all the time, don't they?
I guess it could play a major role in a new "semi-historical" propaganda film. At least it will look like the real thing, unlike the irritating attack scenes in the movie "Pearl Harbor" (2001) in which some of the ships at anchor are obviously way too modern.