A frequent kind of ship to visit Indian Island is the so-called "fast combat supply ship" or T-AOE type. These are large vessels of over 50,000 tons displacement and carry both explosives and fuel to service elements of a Navy battle group. The combination of large amounts of fuel and explosives together is, shall we say, problematic. In a sense, an T-AOE is the world's largest fuel-air bomb. According to the Navy an T-AOE might carry 2,500 tons of explosives and up to 20,000 tons of fuel oil. With a rare, but non-zero possibility, of a large scale detonation, this fuel load would be turned into a mist and the resultant rapid conflagration might produce a fireball several thousand feet in diameter. I leave it to your imagination as to what the results might be. |
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