The majestic power of the ships
Seas and oceans cover seven-tenths of the Earth’s surface, but most people have never been able to see ocean sunsets or real ships in their lives. Living on the shore is difficult to imagine the true size of marine equipment. Without seeing the ships at close range, it is impossible to understand how enormous these machines are, and how they differ from everything that we used to meet on land.
Walking around the city and encountering a battleship on the street, you can get a shock for the rest of your life. A close acquaintance with such a colossus will quickly reduce the number of “sofa experts” who search for posts on the Internet: “One rocket - and a boules-boules”. Sitting on the couch often just do not understand what it is.
“Wisconsin” (tactical number BB-64) is so huge not because it is a battleship, but because all the ships are monstrous in comparison with man. Thousands of tons of metal structures whose total density is less than the density of water.
Everyone knows what a tanker looks like outside.
This is how it looks from the inside:
“Skyscraper” at the pier. But only an ordinary destroyer, one of the sixty built on the project “Burke”.
The anchor of the submarine pr. 941 “Shark”
People used to see the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great on TV screens. Like a paper boat, which let children. Distance hides true dimensions.
Machina near
Another unusual perspective on the Orlan under construction. This is just something.
Captain liner “Queen Mary 2” is posing against the background of his ship. “Black Queen” overshadows all
One of the four aircraft lifters aircraft carrier. With this size you can play football on it.
One of the yachts of the Russian businessman Andrei Melnichenko (Sailing Yacht “A”, launched in 2015). In size, it is much larger than the American destroyer. On such a scale, the figures of people on the deck become almost invisible.
Rocket cruiser 1960-ies.
The crew of the Japanese battleship. The figures of people can be estimated height of the pagoda-superstructure
Someone will say with disdain that ships sometimes sank from one torpedo, not understanding what the meaning of the word “torpedo” is. Specific marine ammunition for delivery to the target hundred kilograms of explosives! On land, this amount of explosives would be enough to smash a whole quarter. Plus, the absolute incompressibility of the aquatic environment (a tenfold increase in the force of the explosion).
And this moment is truly great,
when under the thunder of orchestras and ovations he
startled, off the ground
- the one from which we can not tear myself away ...
when under the thunder of orchestras and ovations he
startled, off the ground
- the one from which we can not tear myself away ...
Ceremony of the withdrawal of the K-551 submarine “Vladimir Monomakh” from the stacking shop.
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