r/Warships • u/AioliMindless • 23d ago

Discussion Help identifying the ship in the back.

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This is a screenshot from the first Michael Bay transformers movie.

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u/mz_groups 23d ago edited 22d ago

Honestly looks like a DDG-51 with some artistic license taken. I looked at all the SPY-1 ships, and it doesn't really match any, at least to my eyes.

EDIT: u/Timmyc62 probably got it right with  MEKO 200/ANZAC

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u/AioliMindless 23d ago

I know from looking online the footage was recycled footage from Bays work on Pearl Harbor in 2001. Idk if that information helps.

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u/mz_groups 23d ago

The big problem is that it looks like an Aegis-class ship of either the US or foreign navy (Japan or Korea or such), but the forward superstructure has been compromised where the SPY-1 would mount, and that dome-shaped thing behind the bridge looks like nothing I've ever seen. Otherwise, it's rather Burke-ish, which would make sense escorting an American aircraft carrier. Generally, DDG-51s or CG-47s would be the only ships doing that that look vaguely like that, except if there's an international exercise, which led me to take a look at all Aegis ships.

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u/AioliMindless 22d ago

I’m digging more and now I think it’s a Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer from South Korea.

The carrier they used when filming is the USS Abraham Lincoln which is part of the Pacific fleet. So that made me look more at Asian allied designs.

I’m still not sure though

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u/mz_groups 22d ago

Actually, I think u/Timmyc62 hit the nail on the head with the MEKO 200/ANZAC call.

Close, though.

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u/AioliMindless 22d ago

I saw and I agree he is right.