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1 posted on 04/17/2003 1:05:11 PM PDT by Lokibob
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To: Sparta
Thought you might be interested ping|
2 posted on 04/17/2003 1:09:29 PM PDT by MattinNJ
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To: Lokibob
Looks like a giant sitting duck to me, but what do I know?
3 posted on 04/17/2003 1:10:16 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: Lokibob
Interesting, but it had better have top notch defenses and each module better have multiple uses in case one is sunk on the way to the operating theater.
5 posted on 04/17/2003 1:13:14 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Lokibob
I found a web site with a the vital stats for Battle Island. Sounds like it will be popular with the troops garrisoned there.

http://www.nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/
7 posted on 04/17/2003 1:16:11 PM PDT by Media Insurgent
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To: Lokibob
looks like one of those toys for kids,that when open have helicopters,tanks,planes,hhhhmmm,old technology then.
8 posted on 04/17/2003 1:17:49 PM PDT by green team 1999
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To: Lokibob
Another "Quagmire"
Another "Vietnam"

Wrong thread, sorry.

BTW: read the article on this, thought it was a cool idea.

13 posted on 04/17/2003 1:22:25 PM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: Lokibob
It will be commanded by Admiral Darth Vader. By that time the Constitution will be a distant memory.
14 posted on 04/17/2003 1:24:47 PM PDT by Destructor
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To: Lokibob; Cyber Liberty
Jihad Magnet Obsessing Bombers
16 posted on 04/17/2003 1:30:28 PM PDT by WaveThatFlag (Run Al, Run!!!)
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To: Lokibob
This is the kind of concept I read in a book a couple of years ago called SeaFighters by James Cobb, in which a floating offshore base was used to support LCAC's which had been modified and turned into a new class of gunboats.

Maybe reality is starting to catch up with fiction.

19 posted on 04/17/2003 1:44:08 PM PDT by JMK
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To: Lokibob
Offshore platforms are dangerous enough without being on one that is a target.

Serving on this thing would be like serving on a first generation submarine. Best stick to personel with no dependants.

So9

20 posted on 04/17/2003 1:53:10 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine (JDAM the Arabs, Full Speed Ahead)
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