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French Carrier Disaster Gets Very Strange
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| December 4, 2003
| 'Dirty Little Secrets’
Posted on 12/04/2003 3:13:10 PM PST by quidnunc
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To: Joe 6-pack
Maybe they should take a lesson or two from someone who knows how to build a fuctional warship.
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posted on
12/06/2003 12:06:21 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(Delta 21)
To: leadpenny
use of propellers from it predecessor, the "Foch," because the ones built for "de Gaulle" never worked right. It even looks like the flight deck/superstructure was designed for the carrier to launch aircraft while driving in reverse.
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posted on
12/06/2003 12:07:35 AM PST
by
Cvengr
(0:^))
To: Delta 21
Now that's a warship!!!!!
I hope the Brits reflag a new Ark Royal...Their equivalent of our Enterprise...
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posted on
12/06/2003 12:11:10 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(I really would like to see them dead.)
To: Travis McGee
Yes. I think one of them is being rebuilt as a floating casino.
To: Pro-Bush
Pro-Bush wrote:
The French Chauchat used in WW1 was a disaster as well. Notice the clip, it was open to mud and debris, this was the worst machine gun ever made.Each gun was individually made, therefore parts were not nterchangable from gun to gun.
When a part broke that gun could not be fixed in the field.
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posted on
12/06/2003 8:33:18 AM PST
by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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