| From: | Stephen Delear <c715591@******.MISSOURI.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Eurowars |
| Date: | Fri, 1 May 1998 13:51:50 -0500 |
>> But even more so, it's surprising noone had noticed the aircraft launched
>> from a regular airfield.
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>> I'm thinking in the direction of rather bizarre gear right now -
>> a stealth carrier, or a small, submersible one.
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>I think a -very- bizarre mood... I'm no expert on aircraft carriers, but I
>find it hard to imagine a submersible carrier... the water wouldn't slide off
>correctly on the flat sort of surface you'd need for planes to land... plus
>watertight hangar would take up too much room....As to a stealth carrier,
>well... I suppose it'd be feasible, but probably a tad too expensive.
>
A submersible carrier is feasable. They looked into it in the 50's but it
moved to slow with the tech they had then. I belive populat science looked
at the idea again a couple of years ago and found it much more feasible
(though with the cold war over no one's really in a hurry to build the
thing). I don't remember if the submerisble carrier was VTOL only or not
though. Also hiding a ship isn't as hard as you might suspect. You need
to know where the satallites are and keep under radio silence and probably
sail under a cloud bank (which won't do you much good against a radar
imaging sat I'll give you but will really ruin the day for an optical one).
Basically yes you can hide a carrier but the Nightwraiths WERE NOT CARRIER
LAUNCHED. Carrier landings screw up the avionics is stealth aircraft
that's why none of the present ones have tailhooks. Of course it's quite
common for present day stealth aircraft to be launched from afar and
refulled in mid flight.
SteveD
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>> Fade
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>> ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin.
>> -Ambrose Bierce
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