Posted on 07/03/2006 12:21:45 PM PDT by SmithL
Hmmm...You know, that is sneaky enough that it just might work.
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OMG! Hillary?!
I wouldn't count on the 9th Circuit doing it.
Possibly her stunt double.
Quite possibly before the day is through.
The reason for this decision by this leftist judge is to most likely let some marine craft (that she probably knows about) of some foreign entity to slip past our defenses to do whatever itis tasked to do, let espionage agents or sabatouers into this country. Yes I truly believe this LEFTISTS FEMALE JUDGE does know wat she is doing!!!!
More LEFT ENEMY AIDING AND ABETTING(TREASON AND SEDITION)
Following on earlier speculation, the military can only use foam rubber propellers, too.
Yep, those camel jockeys are pretty slick customers. See posts 28, 31, and, 37.
I suspect it might take a bit longer than that and I sense that the enviro-wackos won't be satisfied until our ability to conduct ASW in the littorals amounts to a couple of coonasses in a shrimp boat with a Q-beam.
Hillary's plastic surgeon is better, though.
I've had it with "environmental issues" being prostituted into anti-defense implementations.
Perhaps she'd like us to try swinging at submarine periscopes with a hammer a la 1914?!
Well, Mrs. Powel, we now have our answer in full. We have lost it. There is no longer any separation of powers in this country. It is constantly usurped and ingnored and those with the power to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" no longer seem to care.
Does judgy-pooh know the purpose of these submarines, by any chance? I know there's no political or strategic concept outside of GET BUSH! in the Liberals' minds.
"Sailor, you're going to be trained on a software simulator because we don't want to hurt the whales. Sorry if you die because simulation is no substitute for actually operating the equipment against an enemy. Have a nice day."
Baloney. Passive sonar is used for detection and tracking, active sonar is used for accurate location for the specific purpose of delivering a weapon to the target. Yes, active sonar reveals your position, but that is not as much of an issue when using remote sensors (e.g. air-deployed sonobuoys) to deliver the pings and listen for echos.
Not only that, submarine designers have been geared toward hiding from passive sonars for decades now and, espeically in the littorals, the possibility that passive sonar trying to track Kilo-class and even quieter boats might not work has to be taken into account now, before we enter the operational environment.
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature'". The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" -- but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the "Naturist" reveals his hatred for his own race -- i.e., his own self-hatred.
In the case of "Naturists" such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women -- it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly "natural".
Robert Anson Heinlein
ping away pal
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