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To: Onthebrink

Submarines aren’t much good for naval bombardments. Or boarding captured vessels. And when they’re “undetectable [mostly],” they also have limited radio comms, which means limited capacity to respond to changes in orders.


23 posted on 10/08/2021 8:22:09 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

Yup. Submarines are for NUCLEAR war.

Battleships are for CONVENTIONAL war.

I think it would be cool to have 4 of them operating just for camel-jockey wars going on. But their range is limited to about 30 miles of shore bombardment. B52s, smartbombs, laser-guided missiles, A10s and AC130 Ghostriders have that beat. Just do a cost analysis to see which ones work better for the intended purposes.


24 posted on 10/09/2021 1:29:03 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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