To: lightsabre
good article, despite the formatting.
I hadn't run across this bit of info before. thanks.
10 posted on
02/19/2003 2:32:26 AM PST by
xzins
(Babylon -- you have been weighed in the balance and been found wanting!)
To: xzins
The article calls them 'huge' or 'giant' cargo ships at 30 - 35000 tonnes. For perspective, and Arleigh-Burke destroyer is about 83 - 8500 tons, a Nimitz is pushing 86,000 tons.
I'm sure the sonic signature for the screws and powerplant is in the computers of several attack boats.
20 posted on
02/19/2003 4:50:52 AM PST by
Blueflag
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