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Gopher
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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:16 am Post subject: Navy's Ford-Class Supercarrier on Schedule... |
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Gopher
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laogaiguk
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Kuros
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| Doesn't replacing the steam catapults with EMALS render the CVN-21 more vulnerable to EMP attacks? |
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Gopher
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| I have no idea. What are you, an engineer or a law-student? |
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khyber
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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Half of the mandatory spending for the Department of Education for an entire year. |
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Half of the mandatory spending for the Department of Education for an entire year. |
I don't know about this. Military spending is needed. Even if the world was completely at peace, you should still have an active military for other unforseen reasons.
I do think that education is underfunded, and America probably spends too much on the military, but it probably spends money on stupid things too. Take the money from there. We just wasted 300 million on a useless election in Canada |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool but then a clanking chinese sub pops up in the middle of the battle group and sinks her with a spread of torpedoes. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Unless the Chinese have developed photon torpedoes, Mindmetoo, I would not worry myself about their navy presently. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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Half of the mandatory spending for the Department of Education for an entire year. |
What, so they can teach our kids to be gay? The navy's been doing a fine job for centuries. Let's cut the redundancy from our budget. Two birds with one stone I say.
Go, Navy! |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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I always preferred that one to "YMCA."
Where can you find pleasure
search the world for treasure
learn science, technology...? |
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mindmetoo
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matthews_world
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It's great that it's American-made.
I imagine a few slimy lobbists and execs getting kickbacks and their CEO's salary.
Didn't mention where that steel is coming from. China or Korea would be my first guess. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| You don't remember this embarrassing incident? |
I recall the incident. We are neither at war not in a warlike, or cold-warlike relationship with China, our ally in many ways, at the moment, Mindmetoo. Would you have us change that, start treating their small navy as an enemy force just as we treated the Soviets' navy between 1945 and 1990ish?
Besides, it is not as if that Chinese captain found, hunted, and tracked a missile submarine, now is it? |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool but then a clanking chinese sub pops up in the middle of the battle group and sinks her with a spread of torpedoes. |
Its not likely in warfare, as the anti-sub squad would be out day and night, and the US would take action to clear every Chinese submarine in the water before it ever got near a carrier.
But mm2 is right, carrier groups can be quite fragile. I'm more worried about cruise missile assaults and conventional Midway-style attacks from the air. And they have almost 100 aircraft bottled up in that coffin (or flying within its radius) at any one time. It'd be an expensive loss. |
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