| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | the value of education |
| Date: | Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:07:07 -0400 |
>The module "Elven Fire" gives us the supercarrier "Koontz" pulling
into
>Seattle - so the UCAS still has some serious muscle. Especially because the
OK, this raises the next question: who else has this kind of equipement?
CAS, Japan, Australasia, Atzlan, the UK, maybe Germany, maybe whatever is
left of Russia, who else? And do the corps?
>Land-based tube and rocket artillery with BattleTac and organic drones for
>targeting, will wreak holy hell on amphibious invasion. The CAS warplan
It starts off as dual of SpecOps, drones and aircraft, just like the last
time anyone was despirerate enough to try amphib work on a large scale.
>probably centres on a big landing in the Yucatan, where they have local
>support to disrupt said shore defences.
Guerillas?
>Why bother with (fixed, obvious) oil platforms? They draw fire. Fishing
So do shore positions.
Replace them with submersiable battle cruisers and pocket carriers and
large airships, then.
>boats flying the Carib League flag. Or, if you play the politics right, the
>Red Ensign (British merchant colours)
That can get tricky when it is a constant deployment.
>I can't see Carib League having much of a navy. One hell of a merchant
>fleet, on the same terms as Panama, Liberia or Cyprus today... but not
I can see arming merchentmen, it's been done before. And with today's
technology, much less and the majic of SR, allows anyone who can field a
30m vessel or attack aircraft to kill ships of the line. Just sk the RN.
By following that logic, you can say that surface navies are obsolete.
CyberRaven
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