To: Route101
Modern ships in the modern air-launched missile environment...
HMS Sheffield
USS Stark
7 posted on
04/15/2005 3:00:29 AM PDT by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: gridlock
Battleships to indimidate and submarines to strike....
9 posted on
04/15/2005 3:09:10 AM PDT by
Route101
To: gridlock
Er. Uhm.
Did you notice that BOTH were hit by DUD missiles?
In the Gulf, when faced with a bottom-laid (cheap) mine threat, our US Navy destroyers pulled in line BEHIND the merchants - So the mines would blow up under the merchant (and do no damage!) to the frightened and venerable "escorts" huddling in the cargo ships' wakes.
10 posted on
04/15/2005 3:10:14 AM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: gridlock
Most anti-ship cruise missiles could not penetrate a BB's armor.
60 posted on
04/15/2005 5:09:27 AM PDT by
SampleMan
("Yes I am drunk, very drunk. But you madam are ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober." WSC)
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