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submitted 5 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

After a New Zealand navy vessel struck a reef and sunk, some social media users have identified the captain's gender as the principal cause. The country's defense minister has slammed the sexist abuse.

New Zealand's defense minister has called out "vile" and "misogynistic" criticism of the female captain of a navy ship that sank off the coast of Samoa on Sunday.

"Seriously, it's 2024," Judith Collins told reporters on Thursday. "What the hell's going on here? Where's a bit of decency?"

HMNZS Manawanui ran aground on a reef it was surveying about a mile off the coast of Upolu, Samoa's most populous island, before catching fire.

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Shit, we had burkes collide and lose sailors: https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/3065656/

Which is weird, the old Perry class kept getting mined and hit by missiles and never came close to sinking, but that thing had the seakeeping of a duck.

If a Burke got hit by an exocet it'd probably be gone, the superstructure would burn and that would be it.

[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Think modern missiles are so accurate that they can recognize silhouettes and hit the bridge dead on so it's better to be fast and "invisible" than though. When this is in your armament you really don't need to be close I guess. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Strike_Missile

And from the look of it it have some radar invisibility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS_Helge_Ingstad_(F313)

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, the Swedish gotland is similar, the new frigates are amazing, just not as sturdy as the ww2 things that lost their bow and said 'fuck it, full speed astern!'

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