Some super yachts are bigger than destroyers. The longest is 590 ft long and 13,136 tons. The biggest is 20,000 tons. The top ten are all bigger than 10,000 tons.
Warships and yachts are totally different vessels, there is no place on the latter for sensors or weapons.
Where's the trouble here? This is just a 'did you know' story.
If they wanted to stir up trouble they would be better off pointing out that the US industrial maritime capacity is actually terrible, and that China and Europe have far more capable equipment than the US does. Thanks to expensive and largely futile wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been a chronic under-investment in naval capacity, neglect of the merchant marine and so on.
The story of "Project Azorian" and the Hughes Glomar Explorer (the ship this crane was first used to construct) is a Wikipedia hole perfectly sized for a Saturday and some coffee. Well worth reading if you haven't before:
Fun anecdote that Gen-X Baltimoreans may recall from youth - "chessy" was also the name of a myth about yet another prehistoric-esque aquatic beast that swam in the Chesapeake Bay waters (1). Silly Baltimore:)
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 47.3 ms ] threadWarships and yachts are totally different vessels, there is no place on the latter for sensors or weapons.
If they wanted to stir up trouble they would be better off pointing out that the US industrial maritime capacity is actually terrible, and that China and Europe have far more capable equipment than the US does. Thanks to expensive and largely futile wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been a chronic under-investment in naval capacity, neglect of the merchant marine and so on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessie_(sea_monster)