Some good news, along with a bit of background:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36pTr09f3Y
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-navy-flipping-ship-upcycled-134616867.html
https://gcaptain.com/saving-rv-flip-from-the-wreckers-clawsand-its-story-is-mind-blowing/...
acoustic research
anti-submarine warfare
cold war
cold war ii
department of the navy
early 21st century
experimental
late 20th century
oceanographic research
office of naval research
post-cold war
researchresearchshipresearch vessel flip
scripps institution of oceanography
sonar
u.s. navy
united states navy
uss flip
war on terror
I came across this project in a 1968 United States Atomic Energy Commission booklet, The ATOM and the OCEAN, by E. W. Seabrook Hull (can be found on Project Gutenberg here).
The National Science Foundation had proposed an Arctic Drift Barge for Arctic research, which would have a nuclear plant...
Came across this via an old article at Japan Security Watch; The JMSDF's Asuka Class ASE (Auxiliary Ship Experiment):
[IMAGE CREDIT: vspg.net]
The Asuka, which is the only one in her class, is an interesting testbed ship built on a Murasame class hull at a old Sumitomo Heavy Industries yard...
cold war ii
early 21st century
experimental
japan maritime self-defense force
jmsdf
late 20th century
post-cold war
researchresearchship
test ship
testbed
trials ship
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