USS Horne Final Mission: RIMPAC 2008

USS Horne serves as a target during RIMPAC 2008 and hit hit by among other things, three AGM-84 Harpoon Missiles fired from CVW-5 attached to the Carrier Kitty Hawk.

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Science & Technology

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• uss
• horne
• rimpac
• 2008
• sinkex
• cruiser
• navy
• harpoon

[maxquad21]

Sinkex is a good training tool, but theres high grade steel in those

ships that can be recycled.

[JPWesterberg]

@maxquad21 Sure it can be recycled... but as has been mentioned here many times, It would cost the taxpayers more to recycle her than to dispose of her in this fashion. The steel doesn't come out of the ship by itself. It takes months and thousands of man hours to break a ship. The breaking process is performed after contracts are awarded to International Shipbreaking LLC. They are paid millions of dollars to break the ship and they keep all the money from scrap recycling.

[Pagan1955]

oops cant say i will miss the horne

[JPWesterberg]

@Pagan1955 You don't miss her but you search for her? Uh huh. Sure. :-)

[kilo9161]

tax money

[JPWesterberg]

@kilo9161 It costs more to recycle these ships than it does to sink them. So you're right! We're saving "tax money".

[FMJED]

Such a sad way to see her go. . .

Mothball her, don't cut her up or sink her. . .

The Navy spent so much money upgrading these ships to NTU only to scrap them soon after.

It's not a question of if, but when we will need these ships, now, they are all gone.

FC1 Ed Davis, FOX Division USS HORNE, 93-94

[vinorob]

What class vessel was the Horne??

[Corvette131]

RIP and salute old horse and battle house.

[Pagan1955]

@JPWesterberg

Actually no I was seeking another video and that came up the horne sucked burned up a bearing in a storm left us with 1 screw, had a couple fires, and one of the guys fell to his death when one of the small boats fell off the freaking ship and hit the pier.

The officers were scared to come out on the weather decks at night but the best was I was after lookout, and twice they almost got me killed. Maybe you like the idiots playing with a 5 inch gun while your on the fantail

[HillbillySailor]

Such a sad end to such a fine ship. I miss the Belknap class...

[skeilak]

It's always a sad thing, when any ship dies.

She did her duty, and always brought her crew home safe.

You can't ask any more from any vessel, great or humble.

But somehow, this seems a more fitting end for a Warship, then to be hauled to the breakers, and reduced to scrap.