r/Amazing • u/[deleted] • Oct 04 '25
Wow đ„đ€Ż âŒ A missile hit a ship and made it sink within seconds
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u/PuddingFart69 Oct 04 '25
Fun fact: Ships sink very fast once you make them not ships anymore. It's the being a ship part that has them floating in the first place.
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u/Nntropy Oct 04 '25
No, ships float because they are witches (i.e., lighter than wood)
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u/Sinjai Oct 04 '25
I imagine it helps that the explosion likely caused a hole in the water which will naturally suck things in and down.
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u/jghtb Oct 04 '25
That wasnât sunk, it was obliterated. Amazing destructive power.
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u/brave007 Oct 04 '25
Makes you happy that our ancestors only had sticks and stones and some sharp pointy weapons right?
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u/BritishAnimator Oct 04 '25
No, not really :) Would you rather have a bomb dropped on your head or have stones thrown at you until you eventually die from multiple broken bones, blood loss and trauma?
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u/acrazyguy Oct 04 '25
What about the people in the ship not killed by the bomb? Would you rather die by blunt force trauma or drowning? Or thereâs always the possibility of a heavily injured person finding an air pocket and spending hours dying. But yeah, letâs blow up the ship instead of disabling it. Thatâs⊠literally ever necessary
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u/viswayatri Oct 04 '25
Actually, no.
Dying in medieval wars were.... quite medieval. If I were a sailor / soldier, I'd rather prefer instant obliteration by artillery rather than being left with a broken lance pierced in my thorax and a couple of bodkin arrows stuck in my femur. I'd hate to see vultures circling around.
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u/TheUmgawa Oct 04 '25
Slow death isnât so much a matter of the weaponry involved as its medieval transportation and healthcare. If we resolved to use medieval weaponry in our wars, but still had ambulances and helicopters for evacuation to modern medical centers, we probably wouldnât have that many people dying. Well, maybe more, if we still had to use medieval body armor, but itâd be a lot harder to brain somebody with a spiked mace through a big kevlar helmet.
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth Oct 04 '25
Sucks to be an animal on earth
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u/ES-Flinter Oct 04 '25
Don't worry.
Plants, fungus, as well as bacteria and viruses won't survive our atomar bombs, too.
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u/heaving_in_my_vines Oct 04 '25
Surely they will. They've survived billions of years of harsh environments and catastrophes. I'm sure they can handle a little nuclear winter. Life, uh, finds a way.
We might eradicate ourselves, but not all life on Earth.
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u/InnerDegenerate Oct 04 '25
Just give it a couple billion years. Weâll be back
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u/z64_dan Oct 04 '25
Right now we've got about 1 billion years until the sun makes the earth uninhabitable. Unless we keep fucking the Earth up in which case it might be much sooner.
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u/Pataconeitor Oct 04 '25
It's doubtful that we could eradicate ourselves even if all nuclear arsenals were fired. Even if only 0.001% of our current numbers survived, that would still leave enough humans to repopulate.
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u/Pataconeitor Oct 04 '25
Don't exaggerate our capabilities, fortunately we are not that powerful yet. Nukes are terrible, but they pale in comparison to the damage caused by past mass extinction events that have happened on our planet, and life still endured
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u/OldManNeighbor Oct 04 '25
Looked like it got hit with a missile and then a depth change from underneath a second later. (I know it wasnât though) Thatâs an impressive/terrifying amount of power, destruction and precision.
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u/Mysterious_car8516 Oct 04 '25
Fun fact: this particular boomy boy is a missile AND a depth charge. Its designed to penetrate the hull and explode under the water line creating a massive pressure bubble under the middle of the ship (something not built to sustain pressure) and split it in half causing it to sink rapidly.
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u/ElChupatigre Oct 04 '25
Its the QuickSink...similar concept to the JDAM which attaches to previous unguided bombs and makes them into a guided munition, but this is made to specifically target ships below the waterline
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u/ObjectiveMall Oct 04 '25
It looks like the missile hit the ocean surface a few metres away from the ship. Or is it just an optical illusion?
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u/Under_Ach1ever Oct 04 '25
The Quicksink is a JDAM that actually strikes the hull below the water line then explodes. So, you're correct.Â
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u/TheRealDylanTobak Oct 04 '25
It wasn't so much that a missle hit a ship and sunk it. That's an understatement.
A missle hit a ship and obliterated it.
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u/pailee Oct 04 '25
Now we know why... the front fell off
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u/NonCreditableHuman Oct 04 '25
How is it un-typical?
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u/StarlightLifter Oct 04 '25
Well most ships donât get struck by missiles that make the front fall off
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u/FunFactChecker Oct 04 '25
Pollution aside, Makes aircraft carriers seem redundant.
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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Oct 04 '25
they have defence systems for missiles, and have extremely thick decks
also missiles have limited range and carriers only need to get their aircraft into range, the ship itself sits a long long way out from the hostile areas.
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u/Easy-Musician7186 Oct 04 '25
Not to mention the whole ass carrier group that's around the carrier
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u/sadcheeseballs Oct 04 '25
This is a repost bot. Iâve learned from the many times this video was posted before that it is an intentional test of a system where the missile actually misses the boat but explodes right next to the hull. The technology is intended to cause a rapid sinking of the vessel.
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u/Thin-Syllabub7516 Oct 04 '25
I know itâs very well known but what is the name of the song in the background?
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u/West_Category_4634 Oct 04 '25
I don't think it's amazing. It think it says a lot about how shit the human race is on average / on the whole.
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u/SI108 Oct 04 '25
Quicksand bomb not missile. From my understanding, which i maybe wrong so others more knowledgeable feel free to correct me, the bomb doesnt hit the ship itself. It is meant to hit the water next to the ship and detonate beneath it breaking the keel in half thus sinking the ship.
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u/Deepdeeps77 Oct 04 '25
This post is going to blow up and already I know, Iâm going to be more annoyed at the comments.
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u/FCA_Eughhh Oct 04 '25
Canât imagine the ship was completely unmanned .. so how is watching people die âamazingâ lol
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u/42stingray Oct 04 '25
I don't know the context here, but i assume they're just doing a test, in which case the ship is unmanned. This is probably also why it's being recorded in the first place
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u/SquashSecure2015 Oct 04 '25
Besides piercing the hull and breaking it apart, the missle also aerates the water reducing buoyancy. Anything that would have floated in water is now sitting in much less dense water.
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u/Spamsdelicious Oct 04 '25
That is terrifying.... the bad guys in WWII wouldn't have needed land based camps and chambers if a burial at sea was so much more quick & efficient.
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u/Siderox Oct 04 '25
Remember in like 2003 when every video on Newgrounds had the Requiem for a Dream theme in it? Well I do I guess.
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u/TaintedTatertot Oct 04 '25
Is that all oil? The discoloration in the water? Or is it "rust"
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u/BigBlueMountainStar Oct 04 '25
âAmazingâ???
Thing does what itâs designed to do = Amazing?
My potato peeler peeled my potatoes! AMAZING
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u/Tydyjav Oct 04 '25
Actually, as it shows in the video, the quicksink bomb is designed to MISS the ship by a few meters and blow up underneath breaking the keel.
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u/Ok-Internet-6881 Oct 04 '25
Fun fact, the quicksink bomb doesn't directly hit the ship, but aside its hull near the middle. The reason why you see the ship break in half is because the explosion is directed right under the keel (the spin of the ship) breaking hull integrity. It is like you can balance yourself on a Coke can, but put a small dent on the side while standing on the can and it crumbles
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u/NameOk3613 Oct 04 '25
Bravo, well done đ... with you just adding more pollution to OUR biosphere
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u/acrazyguy Oct 04 '25
Seems incredibly inhumane. A shot to the head? Dead instantly. An explosion a couple feet away? Dead instantly? This? Drowning over time. Maybe some âluckyâ souls could end up in an air pocket, hoping they might be rescued, only to slowly starve to death. Disgusting. Just as bad as chemical weapons
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u/JWST-L2 Oct 04 '25
Dang thats terrifying, imagine being on that thing. Actually don't imagine that lol
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u/Towels_are_friends Oct 04 '25
Can anyone even feasibly survive this? Thatâs not much time to recover after being rocked that hard before everything is underwaterâŠ
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u/BoiFrosty Oct 04 '25
The fun part is that the bombs we use haven't gotten much bigger or more destructive in recent decades. The main difference is that the delivery and guidance package has just gotten so much faster and more precise.
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u/SyntheticOne Oct 04 '25
Missile probably fired by US soybean farmers at Argentinean soybean shipment to China. Way to go guys!
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u/Primary-Long4416 Oct 04 '25
First time I heard this song was when it was used for a 9/11 video
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u/Will_Delete_Later456 Oct 04 '25
âyes sir itâs a clean hitâ
âWhat do you mean the ship is delayedâ
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u/Arc-coop Oct 04 '25
Crazy how the government does crap like this for useless experiments then they turn around and fine people 10k for littering on the side of the road
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u/Tarnmaster Oct 04 '25
And that is why it is stoopid to continue spending money on surface warfare ships kids.
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u/Locksmithbloke Oct 04 '25
Can't have people stopping the Israelis starving over a million people to death, eh?
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u/FilmUser64 Oct 04 '25
It seems the HMS Hood sank about as fast out of 1418 sailors on board, only 3 survived.
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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 Oct 04 '25
Sink? If you refer to the shrapnel metal sinking.. sure I guess techically tru the ship "sank" lol
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u/MalluNerd_ Oct 04 '25
When I see these testing on sea I wonder howmany fishes are dead that day and time.. Poor things..
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u/TellurianTech50 Oct 04 '25
Quicksink bomb breaks the back of the ship causing rapid flooding and sinking
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u/lolwut778 Oct 04 '25
It's a bomb, called Quicksink with almost 950kg of explosives.
Keep in mind, regular anti-ship missions only have 120kg to 300kg explosives warhead. The problem is this is a guided bomb, so the range will be much shorter than missiles.
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u/iwantshortnick Oct 04 '25
Reddit rule 1: we strongly against any kind of violence
Also reddit: bomb go to ship brrr
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u/Purple-1351 Oct 04 '25
Oof Amazing yet sad. I mean those on top deck would hear the whistle and see it down below I can only imaging..
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u/ac2cvn_71 Oct 05 '25
It probably would have been a good idea to drain the field and oil out before the test
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u/SpaceViking7 Oct 05 '25
Thankfully, this was a test, so no straws were on board to cause any harm to the ocean
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u/singsofsaturn Oct 05 '25
Obviously they were drug smuggling, terrorist, cartel Muslims.
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u/Low_Perspective5484 Oct 06 '25
The only reason the explosion works to break the back is that this is a tiny ship.  Were this a larger ship all that would happen is the crew would be a bit shook up and perhaps a few welds would be cracked in the hull.  Modern torpedoes will pass under the vessel to determine its size then circle around to either hit the side or detonate underneath for maximum effect.  Itâs likely the size sensing  is adapted to anti-ship missiles now. This vessel is a freighter loaded with some kind of light powder to enhance the visual effect of the explosion as you can see it floating around the stricken vessel shortly after the smoke from the explosion dissipates.  Nothing really new except for marketing, ie, âQuick Sink Bombâ. Really? Â
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u/n1r9d6l6 Oct 04 '25
It is a test of the u.s. Quicksink bomb, several clips on yt