Target ship
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A target ship is a vessel — typically an obsolete or captured warship — used as a seaborne target for naval gunnery practice or for weapons testing. Targets may be used with the intention of testing e
A Mexican helicopter firing rockets at the former USS Conolly, an obsolete Spruance-class destroyer, during UNITAS Gold in 2009
USS America sinking in the Atlantic in 2005 as a naval target. It is the largest warship ever sunk.
USS Iowa (BB-4) under fire, prior to her sinking (March 1923)
Operation Crossroads
USS Conolly
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USS Conolly, named for Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly USN, was a Spruance-class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Target ship
…A Mexican helicopter firing rockets at the former USS Conolly, an obsolete Spruance-class destroyer, during UNITAS Gold in 2009 A target ship is a vessel — typically an obsolete or captured warship — used as a…
USS Conolly transiting the Suez Canal summer 1992
USS Conolly in 1982
USS Conolly off Haiti in 1993
A Mexican Navy helicopter fires at ex-Connolly on 29 April 2009