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To: Elsie

They should be equipped with aerial defenses and machine gun positions forward, aft and amidships, and whatever else they need to keep their cargo and crew safe. Insurers should incentivize this. It’s the new normal.


47 posted on 06/23/2024 6:08:30 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

They are already heavily armed:

Armament
2–3 × Mk 29 Guided Missile Launching Systems, 8 × RIM-162 ESSM or RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles each
3–4 × Phalanx CIWS
2 × Mk 49 Guided Missile Launching Systems, 21 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles each
Mk 38 25 mm Machine Gun

Oddly as big as they are not much “spare” space.


48 posted on 06/23/2024 6:24:17 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (" Life is hard!" Tom Brady)
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