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To: protest1

Very strange.

The RAF is more than capable of taking out a ship of any size without even breaking a sweat.

I think that is why the new destroyers don’t have ship-to-ship missiles — they are pretty useless in 99% of all battle situations which will always involve fighters.


3 posted on 01/05/2014 9:16:37 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
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To: freedumb2003

I predict the next major naval war will be fought visually at close ranges because using radar and active sonar is committing suicide. Violating EMCON(EMISSION CONTROL) is like asking to be sunk.


19 posted on 01/05/2014 11:18:06 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: freedumb2003
There was a post on FR last week about the Type 45, and I didn't think it was all that great looking a vessel.

But at the request of a fellow Freeper, I used Photoshop to add some dazzle camo, and...voila! Good looking warship! Funny how the dazzle made it look more...warlike!


22 posted on 01/05/2014 11:37:25 AM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: freedumb2003

Beg to differ. Coordinated time-on-top, over-the-horizon, Harpoon attacks from several points of the compass are remarkably effective against surface targets.


28 posted on 01/05/2014 2:20:11 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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