Here at The War Zone, we’ve seen our fair share of naval vessels looking, how shall we say, worse for wear, the War Zone website reports. Long deployments at sea, reduced crew sizes, and heavy operations tempos can lead to the formation of heavy rust and corrosion on surface combatants. Compared to seamen aboard surface vessels, however, submariners don’t have the luxury of ease of access to most of their vessel’s structure to keep corrosion under control and the grime off, even if they wanted to.
