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To: House Atreides
Six new ones? Maybe they can lend us one to supplement our pathetic “ice breaker fleet” which I believe (maybe mistakenly) consists of a single ship now.

The Polar Star is the only heavy ice breaker. The Healy is in service but is not a heavy ice breaker. The Mackinaw is the only ice breaker serving the Great Lakes.

That makes a total of three ice breakers for the World's richest and most powerful nation. A total disgrace in my opinion.

20 posted on 08/14/2019 10:40:54 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: OldMissileer

There will be three more new heavies in a few years - uses a design from Finland, conventionally powered, will be armed with some version of the Aegis Defense System - are a few articles around with more detail.


21 posted on 08/15/2019 1:31:40 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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