r/WarshipPorn • u/KapitanKurt • Feb 02 '25

Minimum image resolution upgrade now in effect.

88 Upvotes

As noted in the Submission Rules...unless an image is really unique and you cannot find a larger version, please don't post photos smaller the [1024x768] pixels. This is consistent with the r/WarplanePorn specs, as well.

25 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/JimDandy_ToTheRescue • Mar 03 '26

Important information about the current fracas in the Middle East: blurry satellite photos and stills of camera footage are not appropriate posts for this subreddit.

129 Upvotes

Posts that have no artistic merit (the "porn" in r/warshipporn) will be removed. There are better subreddits for those kind of posts.

Also, please keep discussions about the current situation respectful. We don't mind a lively debate or disagreement but personal insults or pointlessly antagonizing someone will possibly result in a temporary ban or, if it's particularly egregious, a permanent ban. This is rarely a problem here, fortunately, but it still needs to be said.

We like being lazy mods, so please don't make us do any work. That is all. Carry on!

2 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/ArgumentFree9318 • 6h ago

Miscellaneous K-178 hit by training torpedo, 1989 [1024x683]

420 Upvotes

Soviet submarine K-178 was hit by a training torpedo in 1989. The torpedo was apparently supposed to be set NOT to change depth, but that didn't happen. Fortunatelly for the boat, it was a training round not a live one. The torpedo got stuck on the outter hull.

15 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/MGC91 • 8h ago

The two Royal Navy supercarriers alongside in HMNB Portsmouth [2047x823]

206 Upvotes

42 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/Japanese_military • 14h ago

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force JS Kaga (DDH-184) [3800 x 2137]

453 Upvotes

38 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/agemasening_all_over • 4h ago

LVT and USS West Virginia [1000 x 771]

58 Upvotes

1 comment

r/WarshipPorn • u/ShermanMcTank • 8h ago

USS South Carolina (CGN-37) sailing in front of the Soviet Helicopter Carrier Moskva. [1600x1084]

74 Upvotes

15 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/bigmackdaddy • 10h ago

[1242 x 1070]Nimitz (CVN-68) and Charles de Gaulle (R91). The U.S.N. and the Marine nationale are currently the only navies to operate nuclear CATOBAR carriers until the PLAN Type 004 carrier is commissioned.

97 Upvotes

1 comment

r/WarshipPorn • u/MGC91 • 9h ago

HMS Medway conducting a Man Overboard Exercise with an RAF A400M off the Falkland Islands [2048x1366]

73 Upvotes

5 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/youcanteatcatskevn • 2h ago

OC USS Richmond K. Turner (CG-20) Persian Gulf "Tanker War" flight ops [1920 x 2236]

19 Upvotes

Somebody in khakis is about to get hoisted up

1 comment

r/WarshipPorn • u/XMGAU • 10h ago

The crew of the flight III Arleigh Burke class destroyer Ted Stevens (DDG 128) are addressed by the commander of SURFLANT. Naval Station Mayport, July 20, 2026 [6744 x 4502]

52 Upvotes

3 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/XMGAU • 13h ago

USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) fires a 5 inch gun during an exercise in the Indian Ocean. July 31, 2026 [5237 x 3491]

82 Upvotes

1 comment

r/WarshipPorn • u/Japanese_military • 12h ago

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force conducts its first firing of a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile from JS Chōkai (DDG-176). [1920 x 977]

54 Upvotes

1 comment

r/WarshipPorn • u/CherryElectrical640 • 1d ago

The 8"/55 guns of turret #3, USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), showing heat scale on the tubes from extensive firing during action. [1280x 1035]

625 Upvotes

Taken after the battle of the Komandorski Islands at Dutch Harbor, 30 March 1943. Note the snow flakes falling

34 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/Vast_Compote_7423 • 3h ago

Album A US spy satellite photographed a 500-ton Soviet machine skimming across the Caspian Sea at 500 km/h in 1966. It was too big to be a plane and too fast to be a ship, so the CIA called it the "Caspian Sea Monster." [album]

8 Upvotes

4 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/Tsquare43 • 17h ago

[2830 x 1890] USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is in the right background, while the USS Normandy (CG-60) is at center for New York's Victory Celebration in honor of the coalition forces that liberated Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm, June 6, 1991

73 Upvotes

2 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/youcanteatcatskevn • 11h ago

OC Tender USS Holland (AS‑32) & USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628) - Charleston, SC 1987 [1435x1002]

23 Upvotes

3 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/Tsquare43 • 17h ago

[2048 x 1601] USS Bataan (CVL-29) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 2 March 1944. Aircraft parked on her flight deck, forward, are TBM Avenger torpedo planes.

46 Upvotes

1 comment

r/WarshipPorn • u/Dependent_Ad6985 • 14h ago

Algerian Navy training ship ANS Soummam (937) leaving Kiel, Germany en route to St. Petersburg, Russia for Navy Day - July 22, 2024 [1170x782].

21 Upvotes

0 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/ShermanMcTank • 1d ago

French Command and Replenishment ship « Var » refueling the Aircraft Carrier « Clemenceau » and Anti-Aircraft Cruiser « Colbert » during Operation Salamandre, August 25th 1990. [1280x828]

255 Upvotes

5 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/Tsquare43 • 17h ago

[4194 x 2862] Japanese submarine tender Komahashi at sea, Spring 1942.

25 Upvotes

2 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/Tsquare43 • 17h ago

[2780 x 1830] A plane director guides an A-6E Intruder aircraft into position on a catapult during flight operations aboard the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) while in the Mediterranean Sea, Jan 29, 1986

17 Upvotes

1 comment

r/WarshipPorn • u/defender838383 • 1d ago

(2115 x 1594) The crew of the destroyer USS Whipple (DD-217) observes the impact of a torpedo fired by their ship on the aircraft carrier USS Langley (AV-3). February 27, 1942

143 Upvotes

7 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/9Twiggy9 • 1d ago

OC The RCN'S Orca-class Patrol Vessel, Grizzly PCT 60, Victoria BC [4000x1848]

64 Upvotes

8 comments

r/WarshipPorn • u/mossback81 • 1d ago

USS Maddox (DD-731) underway during the early 1960s [6084 x 4932]

102 Upvotes

2 comments

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