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To: HitmanNY
With modern sonar the "mini-sub" could never even get within 5 miles of a carrier.
51 posted on 03/29/2004 8:13:18 PM PST by Bullish
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To: Bullish
Let's say a nuclear device were exploded underwater at some distance beneath a carrier - would the rising gas bubble be large enough to cause the carrier to founder and sink?
59 posted on 03/29/2004 8:15:29 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Bullish
the other possible idea - I had heard that AQ may have gotten their hands on some north korean anti-shipping mines, not sure if there was a FR thread on it from a few weeks back.
63 posted on 03/29/2004 8:16:43 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Bullish
Yep, I would suspect that an aircaft carrier is pretty hard to sneak up on.
72 posted on 03/29/2004 8:18:36 PM PST by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: Bullish
Carriers don't have sonar. They cruise with destroyers, which do.

The destroyers have lots of other goodies. Hence the name, "Destroyers."
174 posted on 03/29/2004 8:59:23 PM PST by RandallFlagg (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure)
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To: Bullish
"With modern sonar the "mini-sub" could never even get within 5 miles of a carrier."

I wouldn't bet on it.

194 posted on 03/29/2004 9:21:17 PM PST by Long Cut ("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
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