#42, RE: Two Questions.
Posted by Redneck on Oct-15-01 at 10:57 PM
In response to message #38
>>>I guess then that the use of submarines is to destroy enemy >>>carriers... >> >>Their purpose is Not to be Seen. They can be used to attack other >>ships or, more spectacularly, to launch missile attacks upon ground >>targets. > >Or deliver commandos, or rescue downed airmen, or monitor a surface >fleet's radio communications, or track test missiles, or locate things >on the ocean bottom, or tap undersea communications cables... > >(For those of you who don't make a hobby of reading about submarines, >all of these things are uses to which subs have actually been put, not >theoretical situations.) All very true, although I regard those as secondary mission profiles compared to the two points I mentioned, especially since several of those missions are also fulfilled by the other types. Redneck (although tapping an undersea cable isn't something you want to do in a missile destroyer) Red wizard needs money badly... www.wlpcomics.com White Lightning Productions - don't tell the Pope
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