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To: shove_it

Sounds like a close to shore capable small battleship.


6 posted on 07/05/2014 7:24:32 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: cripplecreek

Battleship??? One 57mm gun??


30 posted on 07/05/2014 8:01:47 PM PDT by batterycommander (We will likely still be Majors, passed over twice, sitting in dimly-lit offices in the Pentagon.)
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To: cripplecreek
Sounds like a close to shore capable small battleship.

Hardly. I toured the USS Ft Worth a few years back. In order to be a shallow draft, fast moving attack ship they sacrificed armor. Above the water line, it's aluminum. I would NOT want to be aboard when the shtf!

60 posted on 07/06/2014 3:34:05 AM PDT by Antoninus II
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