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They also periodically use live munitions on decommissioned ships, sinking them, for the purposes of validating all sorts of stuff.

https://www.pacaf.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/452930...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Juneau_(LPD-10)

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So, tactical ocean trash?

Almost every decom’d vessel that gets blown up for RIMPAC is turned into an artificial reef.

Steel in the ocean disappears in a century or two. Look at all the rusticles draping off the wreck of Titanic. Bacteria are eating the metal and making slime.

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