[elfman2]

" So again, if you actually believe this and are not just making noise to protect your ego, I ask you "What boats and guns are going to stop such a ferry under such conditions." "

If I listed a boat or two that would likely be available to stop the ferry, would it stop this question? Or would you then just then start into some drawn out juvenile debate regarding a half dozen scenarios that neither of us are really qualified to answer and consider it my job to disprove each of your subsequent claims?

I don’t have anything to prove here. You're the one invested in claiming the carriers are sitting ducks. If you were serious about this you'd follow one of my suggestions, and enlist the input of people that really do know what they're talking about. But you won't do it, perhaps because I suggested it.

Now who's ego is blocking resolution here?

[per loin]

If you listed such boats, one would of course have to see whether or not such boats were in fact available there, where they were berthed or stationed, at what state of readiness they stood, etc. One would then have to look at whether or not such boats could stop such a ferry under the listed conditions and within that short a timeframe. But it seems to me such will not be necessary. You've pretty well shown that you're grasping at straws, though for what reason I'll be polite enough not to say.

As for others with direct knowledge, they're certainly welcome to chime in at anytime - fr is quite open. But I'm sure that we'ed both expect any such sharing of expertise to be circumspect as to what is said in so public a forum.