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To: Jeff Head
Checked it out, thanks for the heads up. I recall in the early eighties Vickers was proposing the V-VAC, a 13,000 ton light carrier similar to a CVE. Inspired by their experience with the Atlantic Conveyor, it would have been modified from a container ship design.

It would not surprise me if China would go down that path, her shipbuilding industry is far bigger than ours, and growing bigger. They are building a new yard near Shanghai that could produce a larger amount of merchant shipping each year than the entire US merchant marine!
57 posted on 10/16/2005 11:18:17 AM PDT by fallujah-nuker (Open Borders: The RINOcracy waging class warfare against American wage earners)
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To: fallujah-nuker
Read my Dragon's Fury Series and you will see that I postulate that exact scenario...in a fictional novel of course.
71 posted on 10/16/2005 11:25:25 AM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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