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To: Strategy

I thought it had coal fired boilers.


9 posted on 10/22/2016 4:43:11 AM PDT by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and : domestic")
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To: Rannug

I was on the USS Coral Sea. I told my wife that it was a coal burner, lol.


12 posted on 10/22/2016 4:49:04 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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Coal or oil it was sure belching a lot of smoke. It is also small and does not carry many aircraft.

As for the rest of their stuff, the S-400 air defence missile is lethal and sane airmen everywhere respect it, fear it.


29 posted on 10/22/2016 6:33:10 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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Likely # 4 or 5 fuel oil, # 6 would be really nasty work.


61 posted on 10/22/2016 9:23:35 AM PDT by Ozark Tom (History rhymes--like it's July 1789.)
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