11/5/2023 0 Comments World of warships force crashAccording to experienced naval officers, the mistakes make the crew look amateurs. Sound recordings and radar logs have revealed crude, almost incomprehensible, human errors made by the crew. The crash and the subsequent sinking of the frigate has given rise to discussions on gender politics and political correctness in Norway. According to CNN, a joint Norwegian and Maltese investigation is now underway to try and determine the cause of the collison. The KMN Helge Ingstad is one of the five Nansen-class frigates billed as “unsinkable” due to its construction with water-tight zones designed to keep the warship “intact and operable”.Īll the crew escaped and only eight of the 137 on board were hurt. Questions remain as to why the well-equipped warship could not avoid hitting the slow moving, 62,557 ton, 250-metre-long oil tanker. The warship was on its way home to Haakonsvern naval base after travelling around the fjords for navigation training. Now all that remains above the waterline is the frigate's top, antennas and radar. The efforts to rescue the ship, which ran aground on underwater rocks, were foiled after the cables, attached to hold the frigate in place to prevent it from sinking, snapped. The tanker, however, is said to be unharmed. A 10-metre-long gash was torn into the side of the warship, which is one of the five in Norway's navy. The KNM Helge Ingstad, dubbed as 'unsinkable', collided with a Malta oil tanker Sola TS. A multi-million dollar warship under the NATO command was entirely submerged after it struck an oil tanker in the early hours of November 8 in a Norwegian fjord.
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