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2 unusual facts about Seaborne target


Seaborne target

Modern free-floating targets are large, inflatable and bright orange; hence the nickname "killer tomato".

Target ships are vessels, typically obsolete or captured warships, used for naval gunnery practice or for weapons testing – perhaps most spectacularly in Operation Crossroads (1946), where 95 ships were sunk in a U.S. nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll.



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