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aesop081
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Ex-Dragoon said:The best thing to kill a sub (I know the Air Types would argue this ) is another sub.
1 Mk 46 selected for TACNAV drop........ ;D
Young KH said:As for Re con, just try and see how close you are going to get to the US or British coast line before detection.
I highly doubt you have any knowledge to back that statement up.....
But even you must admit that all forces need to be increased, and I would hope that even the navy has priorities of where large expenditures would go. Problems lies in the problem that most generals want the biggest toy in the sand box (pool), but that isn't what is needed today. What is needed in 10 years from now may change, but we are at this time Peace keepers and so that is where the money should be spent. To do a half job now because we want equipment that might come in handy in some future time is wastfull and also not fair to the troops in harms way, right now.
So, floowing your logic, because there were no fires in ( insert city name here) last week, the money for the fire department should be spent somewhere's else ? Stop using the term peacekeeper, that is not what we ( at least not me) are. We cannot pick and chose what capabilities we will have as , the funny thing about alliances is that when you realy need them, the dont show up for the fight.
As for you contention tha 1 SSN would have done the job, well yet again you show you are in the wrong arena. to keep 1 single SSN on patrol you need at least 3 ( one comming off patrol, one on patrol and one ready for the next patrol) some for training and one in long term maintenance !! Now exactly where do you think the money for that will come from ? As ex-dragoon mentioned, naval warfare has 3 dimesions and if you dont have all of them you are setting yourself up for failiure.