ashm launchers on coast guard vessels?

• VODKA KE0601

  14 Aug 08, 03:56

  what's those tubes for?

  

   

   

   

   

• lionnoisy

  14 Aug 08, 09:31

  Which country CG?

• GIB

  14 Aug 08, 09:43

  That is a US Coast Guard Hamilton-class High Endurance Cutter.
  
  According to Wikipedia, those tubes are Harpoon launchers.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Mellon_(WHEC-717)
  
  Launching Harpoon:
  

• gaoxingdcf07

  14 Aug 08, 16:54

  very nice looking ship...

• Shotgun

  14 Aug 08, 20:52

  Oh yeah.... the US Coast Guard is like the US's Brown water navy. =D

• VODKA KE0601

  15 Aug 08, 02:05

  Originally posted by GIB:

  That is a US Coast Guard Hamilton-class High Endurance Cutter. According to Wikipedia, those tubes are Harpoon launchers.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Mellon_(WHEC-717)

   

  Thanks for the info, that's very interesting to know.

  Do they use those harpoons on colombians drug runners or vessels with Illegal aliens?

• GIB

  15 Aug 08, 09:47

  Originally posted by VODKA KE0601:

   

  Thanks for the info, that's very interesting to know.

  Do they use those harpoons on colombians drug runners or vessels with Illegal aliens?

  You can read the history of the ship below:

  http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history.asp

  http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history2.asp

  http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history3.asp

  http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history4.asp

  http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history5.asp

  http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history6.asp

  http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcMellon/history7.asp

• Arapahoe

  22 Aug 08, 05:47

  Originally posted by VODKA KE0601:

   

  Thanks for the info, that's very interesting to know.

  Do they use those harpoons on colombians drug runners or vessels with Illegal aliens?

  
  if that happen u will read it in the news paper.

• VODKA KE0601

  22 Aug 08, 17:04

  Originally posted by Arapahoe:

  
  if that happen u will read it in the news paper.

   

  i was just joking.

  a US$527,416 (fas) - US$720,000 (wiki) harpoon to take out a vessel laden with a few hundred million dollars worth of drugs to protect the good citizens of the u.s of a, ain't that bad either.