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To: ArmyTeach

I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again: The Iowa class battleship is quite simply the prettiest thing ever put to sea. Great lines.

It’s probably cost prohibitive to rehab them thoroughly enough, and repower them as nuclear. But dang... if only we could build a couple of new ones... nuclear powered... armored to the hilt... some big guns... some missiles... [sigh]

The odd thing is that they’re probably the only ships in the inventory that might actually survive a modern missile strike.


35 posted on 02/18/2011 8:03:18 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius
You sound like you might be interested...great book: "Neptune's Inferno" about the naval battles around Guadalcanal in 1942-43.

It was a fascinating, graphic look at those battles so many people know so little about.

46 posted on 02/18/2011 8:24:55 PM PST by rlmorel (Now I have to change this tagline: "Weakness is provocative." Donald Rumsfeld)
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