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To: Pan_Yan; TFMcGuire

Cool. It’s a pretty useful tool that has been adapted for many uses. Some of the airlaunched models have in excess of 100 nmi range. Anyway I’d take that over 16” guns anyday. With all due respect T the 16” were great for their time but the anti-ship missle technology rendered them obsolete except for shore bombardment and and finishing cripples off.


70 posted on 06/19/2009 8:15:22 PM PDT by Kudsman (A lifetime of public service = a lifetime of getting serviced by the public.- Mark Steyn)
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To: Kudsman

I agree (about the 16” guns). Still, required manpower aside, I think they’re so much better at projecting power (not to mention they just look better).


75 posted on 06/19/2009 8:28:21 PM PDT by Constantine XI Palaeologus ("Vicisti, Galilaee")
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