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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

A fleet carrier can do what? 40 plus knots at flank speed?

But could a carrier group outrun or evade a missile traveling at ballistic speed?

Do not answer, please, if answer requires classified info.


5 posted on 04/06/2009 8:04:49 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Do your duty in all things." Robert E. Lee)
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To: RexBeach

time for a missle defense shield, got to stop them red chinese. we gave tehm the money and technology to build this stuff, stupid us.

yes a carreir might make 50 mph, not sure if all teh support ships that sail with it can do that speed, and a carrier must have them support ships for defence. Our carriers are not well armored, they are soft targets, scarey stuff. a missle at mach 10, even lacking a war head is a big deal.

now if we had them airplane based laser guns, to kill missles in flight, we might have a good chance at defence.

maybe teh ship based missle defences can help agisnt this kind of attack.

rotten commie chinese


9 posted on 04/06/2009 8:09:58 AM PDT by dhm914
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To: RexBeach

40 knot ships do not out run Mach 10 missiles. That missile can fly farther in five minutes than a fleet can travel in a day.


70 posted on 04/06/2009 1:59:24 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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