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2010-09-17 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Cloaked ships lying in wait will always beat surface vessels. It ain't 1941 any more. Times have changed. Good thing China is wasting tremendous amounts of resources on all those ~~aircraft carriers~~ targets for these subs to shoot at.

Posted by gromky 2010-09-17 06:58|| 2010-09-17 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 If it flies through the air, it can be nailed with an energy weapon. However, it seems to me that escort ships could be equipped with lightweight but strong drag nets with floats to catch torpedoes, even super cavitation ones.

Regular torpedoes would need major modification to get around such defenses, and it would defeat the entire purpose of supercavitating torpedoes.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-09-17 09:15|| 2010-09-17 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 IMHO, there are only two kinds of ships:
1) submarines;
2) targets.

RKC ET1SS
3353/3363
1967-1987

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-09-17 11:53|| 2010-09-17 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder if its time for a Submarine Aircraft Carrier packed with armed UAVs.... Or some sort of cruise torpedoes.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-09-17 12:05|| 2010-09-17 12:05|| Front Page Top

#5 ION WORLD NEWS > CHINESE CAPTAIN [fishing trawler] SENT TO PROSECUTORS IN OKINAWA.

and

* SAME > JAPAN'S NEW FM GETS TOUGH WITH CHINA.

All together now, wid feeling, "YUH-OH"!

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA TO BUILD ANOTHER PORT IN SRI LANKA, besides HAMBANANOTA. Chin-renovated or improved COLOMBO PORT may be bigger than MOST INDIAN PORTS COMBINED???

Once completed, the questin then becomes how much Trade, Mil? access or utility to same will INDJUH [India] be allowed to have vee SL's new BFF CHINA, to includ Chin-built GWADAR???.

D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, HER NEW B-F-F'S NAME ISN'T "JILL"!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-09-17 22:06|| 2010-09-17 22:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Properly designed, a UAV-, FBM, + SLCMS-armed SUBMARINE AIRCRAFT CARRIER would primarily be a FIRST-STRIKE, OFFENSIVE/PREEMPTIVE WEAPON + ANTI-BMD.

A smil-armed ARSENAL/FIRE-SHIP [Surface Warfare]. would be most effective as a COUNTER-STRIKE/RESPONSE WEAPON + PRO-BMD.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-09-17 22:12|| 2010-09-17 22:12|| Front Page Top

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